Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195307887ISBN-10:195307887UPC:9780195307887Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Women's StudiesSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SC6DJCSNWH
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195307887ISBN-10:195307887UPC:9780195307887Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Women's StudiesSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SC6DJCSNWH
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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