Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females

by Serinity Young

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195307887
• ISBN13: 9780195307887
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"