Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them
Swoon is a glittering pageant of charismatic ladies’ men from Casanova to Lord Byron to Camus to Ashton Kutcher. It challenges every preconceived idea about great lovers and answers one of history’s most vexing questions: what do women want? Continue reading
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love studies and celebrates a feminist heroine we haven’t heard about—one of the most misunderstood women in history. Continue reading
The Circle of Eros: Sexuality in the Work of William Dean Howells
The Circle of Eros examines the sexual themes in the novels and writings of America’s “genteel” turn-of-the-century author and argues that William Dean Howells was not the respectable prude of literary renown. Continue reading