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Author: Serinity Young Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019065970X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 377
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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, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, 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 offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
Author: Tamika Banks Publisher: ISBN: 9781544716121 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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This book will heal your soul -fast. Whether your soul is wounded or your spirit is eager for tools, tips and tricks to relax your mind, reading this is a sure fire way to help. Just imagine, what if you could turbo charge your life, heal your soul and manifest your dreams? What if you could transform your world in an instant and actually be the person you've always imagined? And what if you could do all of this just by unlocking the answers that exists within us all. Would you do it? What could stop you Where there is a will, there is a way! You will see firsthand, the recipes, universal laws, and collections of experience gathered to guide us along the way. I am a GUIDE, God's Universal Infinite Divine Energy and I am here to share my journey to loving myself. Like many, my life was no fairytale. My life brings new meaning to the saying that "Life isn't fair". Who ever said it should be? And who ever told me that I should be excluded from all of the mishaps in life? Visions of white picket fence, societal time clocks, and other social and cultural programs installed in my mind (before I even had the capacity to process it all) plagued me on my journey and colored the lenses that I viewed life with for many years. As I begin to have awareness, consciousness stepped in and began to transform me from the inside out. I have found my way and I want to share it with you!You will discover through my poems and personal stories, the vital lifesaving methods that I've employed to enjoy abundance, love, peace and happiness. You will have, within your fingertips the power to overcome any obstacle that comes your way! When you love yourself first, the capacity to love others activates. I put my own SPIN to things through out. Situation, Program, Insight or Implication, Narrative Use this book as a guide for the everyday struggle. Use this book to remind you to First Love Yourself, everyone and everything else after that. Read this book and re-read again. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Loving yourself may be a new program and may require a complete reset from the one you inherited as a child. If this is you, there are some jewels for you in these pages. Pay close attention to the details that surround the techniques and you will be pleasantly surprised at the benefits. As in any situation, crisis or otherwise, the golden rule applies, put your own air mask on first, then you can help others. The same is true with love; first love yourself, others will follow.Radiating love, light, peace, happiness and joy to you all!
Author: Stephen Coonts Publisher: Arrow ISBN: 9780099174219 Category : Air travel Languages : en Pages : 344
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This is an account of three months of flight in a vintage 1942 Stearman bi-plane. Travelling across 48 continental United States, Coonts flies like the legendary barnstormers, painting a picture of the astonishing panorama of landscapes beneath him, from the Painted Desert to the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore. He swoops under storms and over mountains, across swamps, deserts, forests and the monumental expanse of the Great Plains; he relates with relish the sights, sounds and stories of small-town America; he shares the individual tales of the people he meets along the way. His experiences fill him with nostalgia for the past and above all an overriding hope for the future.