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


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Description

In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world--from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a m nage with four men. Smarts, imagination, courage, and killer charm helped these love maestras claim the men of their choice and keep them fascinated for life. Through an expos of their secrets, Seductress provides an authoritative, empowering guide to erotic sovereignty.

Author: Betsy Prioleau
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/26/2004
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9780143034223
ISBN10: 0143034227
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | World | General
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)

About the Author
Betsy Prioleau has been a scholar in residence at New York University and a professor at Manhattan College. She is the author of Circle of Eros: Sexuality in the Works of William Dean Howells.