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Index

Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

Female Flight Heroines, Freedom, and Captivity Transcendence and Immanence Shape-Shifting

1. 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

2. 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

3. The Fall of the Valkyries

Brunhilde in the Volsungs Saga Images and Meanings Brunhilde in the Nibelungenlied Wagner’s Brunhilde

4. 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

5. Angels and Fairies: Male Flight and Contrary Females

Angels and Demons Fairies

Morgan le Fay Fairy Brides Asian Fairies

6. Apsarās: Enabling Male Immortality, Part 1

In Hinduism

Relations with Heroes Seducing Ascetics Kings, Devadāsīs, and Fertility

In Buddhism

Seductresses The Saundarānanda

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part I

St. Christina the Astonishing Flight and Sanctity

St. Irene of Chrysobalanton St. Elisabeth of Schönau

Female and Male Mystics

Hadewijch of Brabant

11. 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

12. 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

Notes Works Consulted Index

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