TY - BOOK AU - Young,Serinity TI - Women who fly: goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females SN - 9780190659691 AV - BL473.5 .Y685 2018 U1 - 200.82 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Goddesses KW - Wiccans KW - Women mystics KW - Women KW - Supernatural KW - Déesses KW - Femmes mystiques KW - Femmes KW - Surnaturel KW - mystics KW - aat KW - supernatural KW - women (female humans) KW - RELIGION KW - Comparative Religion KW - bisacsh KW - Essays KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Fliegen KW - gnd KW - Göttin KW - Hexe KW - Mystikerin KW - Mythologie KW - Sagengestalt KW - Übernatürliches Wesen N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Female flight ; Heroines, freedom, and captivity ; Transcendence and immanence ; Shape-shifting -- Earth, sky, women, and immortality : Earth, sky, and birds ; Magical flight, ascension, and assumption ; Dreams, women, and flying ; Humans, divinities, and birds : Apotheosis; Birds; Bird goddesses -- Part I. Supernatural women : Winged goddesses of sexuality, death, and immortality : Isis ; Women, death, sexuality, and immortality ; The ancient Near East ; Ancient Greece : Athena and the monstrous-feminine; Aphrodite; Nike -- The fall of the Valkyries : Brunhilde in the Volsungs saga ; Images and meanings ; Brunhilde in the Nibelungenlied ; Wagner's Brunhilde -- Swan maidens: captivity and sexuality : Urvaśī ; Images and meanings ; Northern European tales : Tchaikovsky's Swan lake ; Asian swan maidens : Feather robes and dance ; Two Middle Eastern tales : Hasan of Basra; Janshah -- Angels and fairies: male flight and contrary females : Angels and demons ; Fairies : Morgan le Fay; Fairy brides; Asian fairies -- Apsarās: enabling male immortality, part 1 : In Hinduism : Relations with heroes; Seducing ascetics; Kings, Devadāsīs, and fertility ; In Buddhism : Seductresses; The Saundarānanda -- Yoginīs and ḍākinīs: enabling male immortality, part 2 : Tantra ; Yoginīs : Yoginī temples; Practices and stories; Sexual yoga; Taming ; Ḍākinīs : Subduing; Tibetan practitioners -- Part II. Human women : Witches and succubi: male sexual fantasies : Medea ; Ancient witches and sexuality : Circe; The witch of Endor ; Succubi and Incubi ; Witches in Christian Europe : The Witches' sabbath; Women and the demonic; Flying -- Women shamans: fluctuations in female spiritual power : The Nišan shaman ; Becoming a shaman ; Magical flight, ritual dress, and spirit animals ; Gender ; Transvestism and sex change ; Sexuality -- Flying mystics, or the exceptional woman, part I : St. Christian the astonishing ; Flight and sanctity : St. Irene of Chrysobalanton; St. Elisabeth of Schönau ; Female and male mystics : Hadewijch of Brabant -- Flying mystics, or the exceptional woman, part II : Islam : Rābi'ah al-'Adawiyya; Other aerial Ṣūfī women ; Daoism : Sun Bu'er; Daoist beliefs and practices ; Buddhism : Human ḍākinīs; Machig Lapdron and Chod practice -- The aviatrix: nationalism, women, and heroism : Wonder Woman ; Amelia Earhart : Death and the heroine ; Hanna Reitsch ; Women, heroism, and militarism -- Conclusion : The exceptional woman ; Women and war N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1666235 ER -