Full title: Women who fly : goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females / Serinity Young.

Author/creator: Young, Serinity.

Call Numbers: G 2018/5206

Record Identifier: 74VKV8647ljA

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, , , , Earth, sky, women, and immortality -- Winged goddesses of sexuality, death, and immortality -- The fall of the Valkyries -- Swan maidens: captivity and sexuality -- Angels and fairies: male flight and contrary females -- Apsarās: enabling male immortality, part 1 -- Yoginīs and ḍākinīs: enabling male immortality, part 2 -- Witches and succubi: male sexual fantasies -- Women shamans: fluctuations in female spiritual power -- Flying mystics, or the exceptional woman, part I -- Flying mystics, or the exceptional woman, part II -- The aviatrix: nationalism, women, and heroism.

Publishers: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Permalink: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8647ljA

DDC: 200.82

MMS ID: 991024187518202626