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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

by Betsy Prioleau

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How did the seductresses of western history love-addle men and keep them in their pockets for life? The surprising answers explode all the myths. Instead of dim blondes or shark-hearted vamps, the top fascinators were nonbeauties, older women, and swanky artists, intellectuals, politicas, and adventurers. Each chapter in Prioleau's bold, inspiring book recounts the sexy stories of these love maestras-some familiar like Cleopatra, Lola Montez, and Wallis Simpson; others less so, like the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a menage with four men. With their alpha personhood and their joint mastery of love and work, these seductresses practiced an ancient, long-forgotten erotic art that is 99 percent mental sorcery-a cocktail of wit, eloquence, and joie de vivre.

Prioleau's thrilling, thorough, and engaging analysis of these women supplies all the voltage necessary to upend every regressive how-to primer and shows the women of today-mired in an epic crisis of confidence-how to recoup their sexual birthright and achieve combine romantic and personal success.

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A scholar offers a radical new take on history's great seductresses--who they were and the surprising constellation of qualities that distinguish them as masters of love craft.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-354) and index.
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Betsy Prioleau was raised in a Southern belle culture in Richmond, Virginia, before going on to earn a Ph.D. from Duke University. She has been a scholar-in-residence at NYU and a professor at Manhattan College.
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Table of Contents

contents

acknowledgments vii

preface x

1. Seductress: The Women and the Art 1

2. The Seductress Archetype 25

3. Belles Laides: Homely Sirens 49

4. Silver Foxes 83

5. Scholar-Sirens 119

6. Sorcires: Siren-Artists 155

7. Machtweiber: Seductresses in Politics 195

8. Siren-Adventurers 233

9. Goddess-Trippin': Into the Future 277

notes 294

suggested reading 353

index 355

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donah, January 19, 2009 (view all comments by donah)
The article is pretty convincing, but has it any scientific value as the writer is no academic but a freelancing individual..... with a recollection of "experiences".... As I said:- "pretty convincing" for the laymen.... In a place like the US of A anything is up for sale if not your great gramma. Not so in this continent... Europe.... Donah////
P/S:- Europe has a logo.... America is the land of impossible possibilities or v.v.
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ISBN:
9780670031665
Subtitle:
Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
Author:
Prioleau, Betsy
Author:
Prioleau, Elizabeth
Author:
Prioleau, Elizabeth Stevens
Publisher:
Viking Adult
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Social history
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
Femmes fatales
Subject:
World - General
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
General Social Science
Series Volume:
no. 4
Publication Date:
20031027
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
9.42x6.28x1.24 in. 1.52 lbs.
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