October 13: Mount Kisco Book Club November 28: "Babes in Books," Richmond, Virginia November 29: "Womanly Arts" Course, Richmond, Virginia Betsy Prioleau is available to Speak on the Following Topics The Seductress: Myths and Reality. Who the great enchantresses really were and what they can teach us today about love and life mastery. The Dating Crisis on Campus. Some answers from the seductress of the past. A discussion of the much-publicized brownout of sexual power among college women in the hook-up culture and suggestions about how to recoup female erotic choice and control. How to Put the Femme Fatale Back in Feminism. A retrospective of feminist gains of the last fifty years with an emphasis on the issue of erotic empowerment. Have women's love lives kept pace with their public and professional gains? If not, lessons from a group of neglected role models of full entitlement. Exploding the Myth of the Love-Doomed Artist. The stories of two great artists, painter Grace Hartigan and pianist Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who broke the mold and enjoyed fabulous success in art and eros. The Life and Loves of "The Blonde Peril," Martha Gellhorn. America's first female war correspondent and the only woman to have left Hemingway. A new take on her dazzling, revolutionary career. Swans vs. Dogs. An examination of the current beauty mania, with an exposé of the irrelevance of looks in love. Illustrations from the lives of the great enchantresses of history will support arguments drawn from many disciplines. Can we Talk? The Lost Art of Charmspeak. Learn why all the ancient love goddesses and top enchantresses were "Ladies of Words of Power" and how they talked men into love with them with their verbal arts.