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Serinity Young Women Who Fly (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Women Who Fly
- Title
- Women Who Fly
- Subtitle
- Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
- ISBN-10
- 0195307887
- EAN
- 9780195307887
- ISBN
- 9780195307887
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 17/05/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 164mm
- UPC
- 9780195307887
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females
- Item Height
- 243mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Topic
- Beliefs, Zoology, Religious History, Mythology
- Item Width
- 164mm
- Item Weight
- 676g
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brunnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited.The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
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Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780195307887
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9046338389
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Book Title
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Beliefs, Zoology, Religious History, Mythology
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
376 Pages
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243mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
676g
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United States
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