Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195307887 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College.. Serinity Young is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at New York's American Museum of Natural History
I do think the book sounds like it is well worth publishing and it ought to appeal to feminists and folklorists alike." --Alan Dundes, Anthropology and Folklore, University of California, Berkeley "The book is the only one I know on this theme, and it is a marvelous idea: flying women. The scholarship is sound, the organization clear and simple, and the writing lively and confident. I find the project itself to be quite fascinating and I would urge you to go ahead with the book. Placed against this sweeping backdrop, the aspirations of modern aviators such as Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride are part of an ongoing power struggle between the sexes over who gets to fly, literally and symbolically." --Susan Ware, author of Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism. I can't think of anyth
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, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. This is most vividly portrayed in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into giving up her virginity. It is a theme that remains tangible even in the twentieth-century exploits of the comic book character Wonder Woman who, Young argues, 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 is an exciting, fresh look at the