Flying women are a common motif in the world's myths and religions. Not necessarily winged, these women elicit reactions of fear, fascination, and ambivalence, and in so doing reveal much about the perceptions of female power and sexuality through the ages. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, and art, Women Who Fly sheds new light on the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions around the world.
Flying women are a common motif in the world's myths and religions. Not necessarily winged, these women elicit reactions of fear, fascination, and ambivalence, and in so doing reveal much about the perceptions of female power and sexuality through the ages. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, and art, Women Who Fly sheds new light on the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions around the world.
Serinity Young is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at New York's American Museum of Natural History. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College.
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* Introduction * Chapter 1 Earth, Sky and Supernatural Women * PART I Supernatural Women * Chapter 2 Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death and Immortality * Chapter 3 The Fall of the Valkyries * Chapter 4 Swan Maidens: Captivity and Sexuality * Chapter 5 Angels and Fairies: Male Flight and Contrary Females * Chapter 6 Apsaras: Enabling Male Immortality Part 1 * Chapter 7 Yoginis and Dakinis: Enabling Male Immortality Part 2 * PART II Human Women * Chapter 8 Witches and Succubi: Male Sexual Fantasies * Chapter 9 Women Shamans: Fluctuations in Female Spiritual Power * Chapter 10 Flying Mystics Part I West * Chapter 11 Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman Part II East * Chapter 12 The Aviatrix: Nationalism, Women and Heroism * Conclusion * The Exceptional Woman * Women and War
* Introduction * Chapter 1 Earth, Sky and Supernatural Women * PART I Supernatural Women * Chapter 2 Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death and Immortality * Chapter 3 The Fall of the Valkyries * Chapter 4 Swan Maidens: Captivity and Sexuality * Chapter 5 Angels and Fairies: Male Flight and Contrary Females * Chapter 6 Apsaras: Enabling Male Immortality Part 1 * Chapter 7 Yoginis and Dakinis: Enabling Male Immortality Part 2 * PART II Human Women * Chapter 8 Witches and Succubi: Male Sexual Fantasies * Chapter 9 Women Shamans: Fluctuations in Female Spiritual Power * Chapter 10 Flying Mystics Part I West * Chapter 11 Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman Part II East * Chapter 12 The Aviatrix: Nationalism, Women and Heroism * Conclusion * The Exceptional Woman * Women and War
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