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Title: Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Betsy Prioleau, Elizabeth Stevens Prioleau ISBN: 0-670-03166-6 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: required reading
Comment: The only problems I have with the book are the racist comments:
one woman is described as having a face "like a Spanish busboy"
and another had a "cigar store Indian's nose" yet another "the face of a jowly Sioux warrior",to cite only three (there were more), and the authors' assumption that her readers are all college educated, financially secure urban professionals. Past that, the book is spectacular. Perhaps a bit too relentless in its use of current silly slang, I think it could possibly change the life of the woman who truly heeds its message. Women have been lied to, and to this very day, about what men want, and what makes a woman irresistable. Obviously, women are men's intellectual equals, have greater emotional intellegence, and a sexuality far,FAR more powerful than a man's-although few women actually discover just how powerful; such are the results of enduring misogynistic lies , the reviling of truly sexually free women as "ho's" and sluts, and clever conditioning. Prioleau's research cited herein bears this out. Her chapters on older and "homely" women are also right on target. Misogyny is still horrifyingly rampant in the world, especially here in the West, in ever more subtle-and not so subtle- disguises, where elderly women and "ugly" women are seen as disgusting, dehumanised/desexualised (except in pornography where they are used for shock value) and treated as figures of fun and derision by men everywhere. Women's sphere of acceptablility to men in general is very small, as we are painfully aware. And not just to men on the romantic/sexual make, but in the world of work as well. But, I do not wish to turn this review into a rant.. PLEASE read the book, and explore the notes and suggested reading list in back. Buy one for your daughter and your mother- and your grandmother! The book's most cogent message is that self knowledge and self love is the only path to attracting true love and adoration.And we as women cannot hear that enough!
Rating: 2
Summary: TIRED of "Inanna"
Comment: I loved it for the jumping off point I took it to be. Names to look up and read about. Very interesting very short biographies. But I can't tell you how early in the book I was wincing on reading the name "Inanna" yet again. Inanna is everywhere in this book, there was barely a page that doesn't mention her. If not for how much steam I built against that one peeve, the book would have gotten a far better rating. Petty, I know, but there's my opinion.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sparks interest in feminism and history, not be-all end-all
Comment: Prioleau presents a good outline for her work by selecting certain attributes from the origins of goddess worship, early religions, and the roles that women have played in history from pre-historic times. She then uses these attributes that she finds important and compares them to other living women throughout history and how their lives parallelled the same kinds of characteristics. The problem is, there is no timeline whatsoever to the women she choses to make significant - it's hard to absorb because on two pages you'll be reading about Gloria Steinem, then the next two pages are about Victoria Woodhull, then the next few pages are about Cleopatra, etc. It's enthusiastic, but sort of a party of her own about women that she thought were of importance. It's a nice conglomeration, but it makes you want more information and history because she covers so little - kind of like a paper written in college. She also tries to convince you that she is presenting the REAL facts about all of these women, but is writing in such an opinionated way it makes you wonder what she's blowing off. Obviously, it was not meant to be all-inclusive, but there is something about this book that just makes you feel like you're missing something.
Overall a very fun read, and a great resource that can lead you to other things. Great list of recommended books, good index, too.
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Title: Courtesans : Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman ISBN: 0066209552 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts : Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World by Regena Thomashauer ISBN: 0743439937 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Grandes Horizontales by Virginia Rounding ISBN: 1582342601 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 07 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier ISBN: 0312308760 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Round-Heeled Woman : My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska ISBN: 1400060117 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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