Serinity Young: 2 books
Courtesans and Tantric Consorts
Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory,...
Women Who Fly
Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
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...