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Review Of Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, And Other Airborne Females By Serinity Young, Nancy Schultz
Review Of Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, And Other Airborne Females By Serinity Young, Nancy Schultz
Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Serinity Young’s Women Who Fly soars through place and time to survey the surprisingly ubiquitous trope of airborne women. Interdisciplinary and global in scope, this book covers a typology of flying females flourishing throughout the millennia in myth, literature, and art. Flying operates as a prism through which Young—a Research Associate at New York’s American Museum of Natural History—examines female power and subjection in cultures spread across varied geographical locations and periods. Women Who Fly begins with a meditation on the Louvre’s “Victory of Samothrace,” the awe-inspiring statue of Nike, Greek goddess of victory, with her powerful wings and thighs …
Uncle Tom's Cabin In Krakow: Cross-Cultural Apprehensions, Nancy Schultz
Uncle Tom's Cabin In Krakow: Cross-Cultural Apprehensions, Nancy Schultz
Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been mired in controversy since 1852; it continues to challenge readers today. During spring 2018, I had the opportunity to teach the novel twice, once at Salem State University in Massachusetts, and then as a visiting professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.