Isbn Women Who Fly ( Goddesses Witches Mystics and other Airborne Females ) English

Name: Isbn Women Who Fly ( Goddesses Witches Mystics and other Airborne Females ) English
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ISBN Women Who Fly ( Goddesses Witches Mystics and other Airborne Females ). Written by: Serinity Young, Language version: English, Publisher: Oxford University Press

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ISBN Women Who Fly ( Goddesses Witches Mystics and other Airborne Females ). Written by: Serinity Young, Language version: English, Publisher: Oxford University Press

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From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales tales of flying women-some with wings others with clouds rainbows floating scarves or flying horses-reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly Serinity Young examines the motif of flying women as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods expressed in legends myths rituals sacred narratives and artistic productions. She covers a wide range of themes including supernatural women like the Valkyries who transport men to immortality; winged goddesses like Iris and the Greek goddess Nike; figures of terror like the Furies witches and succubi; the relationship of marriage and freedom; the connections between women death and rebirth; dreams about flying and shamanistic journeys; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Young also looks at the mythology surrounding real-life female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout these examples of flying women Young demonstrates that female power has been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it was and continues to be a pervasive theme in these stories. The relationship between sex and power is most vividly portrayed in the 12th-century Niebelungenlied in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into losing her virginity. But even in the 20th century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book character Wonder Woman who posits Young 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 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.