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Machine generated contents note: 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 -- pt. I Supernatural Women -- 2. Winged Goddesses of Sexuality, Death, and Immortality -- Isis -- Women, Death, Sexuality, and Immortality -- Ancient Near East -- Ancient Greece -- Athena and the Monstrous-Feminine -- Aphrodite -- Nike -- 3. 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 -- Urvasi -- 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. Apsaras: Enabling Male Immortality, Part 1 -- In Hinduism -- Relations with Heroes -- Seducing Ascetics -- Kings, Devadasis, and Fertility -- In Buddhism -- Seductresses -- Saundarananda -- 7. Yoginis and Dakinis: Enabling Male Immortality, Part 2 -- Tantra -- Yoginis -- Yogini Temples -- Practices and Stories -- Sexual Yoga -- Taming -- Dakinis -- Subduing -- Tibetan Practitioners -- pt. II Human Women -- 8. Witches and Succubi: Male Sexual Fantasies -- Medea -- Ancient Witches and Sexuality -- Circe -- Witch of Endor -- Succubi and Incubi -- Witches in Christian Europe -- Witches' Sabbath -- Women and the Demonic -- Flying -- 9. Women Shamans: Fluctuations in Female Spiritual Power -- Nissan 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 Schonau -- Female and Male Mystics -- Hadewijch of Brabant -- 11. Flying Mystics, or the Exceptional Woman, Part II -- Islam -- Rabi'ah al-'Adawiyya -- Other Aerial Sufi Women -- Daoism -- Sun Bu'er -- Daoist Beliefs and Practices -- Buddhism -- Human Dakinis -- Machig Lapdron and Chod Practice -- 12. Aviatrix: Nationalism, Women, and Heroism -- Wonder Woman -- Amelia Earhart -- Death and the Heroine -- Hanna Reitsch -- Women, Heroism, and Militarism -- Conclusion -- Exceptional Woman -- Women and War. |
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