• • New York City-based BookReporter.com weighed in on the merits. According to BookReporter, in SEDUCTRESS author Betsy Prioleau attempts to restore feminine sexual power to modern women. She examines the wiles of historical seductresses in a meticulous treatment of their histories. Intense research is a hallmark of her authoritative guide to sexual sovereignty.
• • Early in the book she puts down myths about the sexuality of the historical seductress with voluminous facts that substantiate her theories.
• • She categorizes the seductresses into six prototypes. The first insidious falsehood is that seductresses must be young and beautiful, but she dispels the myth with stories of very ugly enchantresses of the past. Age is a second misnomer, with celebrated allure of "old dames." The third myth centers on the intellectuality of a real seductress, with intelligence winning out over stupidity. Inspiration and artistic endeavor allowed women to build careers, tearing away the vapid housewife myth. Real seductresses were "movers and shakers," playing heavy parts in the world of government. Lastly, she explores the seductress as wildly adventurous and rakishly professional. ...
• • The author writes in the meat of SEDUCTRESS with passion about Belles Laides, her so-called homely sirens. Isabella Stewart Gardiner, known as Belle, stated, "Never ever behave with pride, self-confidence, and self-conceit." Wallis Simpson, the divorced siren who caused David Windsor to abdicate the British throne, is another less than beautiful personality described.
• • A chapter titled "Silver Foxes" is a word picture of the elder seductress such as Diane de Poiters, George Sand of the nineteenth century, and Colette, the modern aging siren. Mae West takes a big bite of this chapter, adding the categories of money and status to adulation reserved for sexual prowess.
• • Siren-scholars, artists, political divas and adventurers unfold in the bulk of the book. Their lives are a checklist for the women of today, to develop a new seductress prototype in the fast-paced twenty-first century world that paints sex as an act rather than an art. Prioleau suggests that women can become happier, sexier and more vital. ...
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• • Book Review: "Educational entertainment in the realm of female entitlement"
Published: 7 December 2004
Source: BookReporter.com (New York, New York)
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• • Book Review from The Washington Post's Book World/ washingtonpost.com
"The seductress is one of the most potent female personas in existence," writes Betsy Prioleau in the preface to this book. Ms. Betsy seems just the woman for the job of lauding the seductress. Armed with a PhD from Duke and a Southern-belle mother (she was "Miss Valentine of Richmond, Virginia," daughter notes proudly), she's got the brains and the roots to tackle the siren's enormous historical import. ...
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• • SEDUCTRESS: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
• • BY: Betsy Prioleau
• • [NY: Penguin Books, 2004] — — ISBN: 0143034227
• • Book some time with Mae West on Friday evening 17 August 2007, when a guided tour will explore Manhattan's WEST-side during the "Mae West Side Story" walking tour. The event — — open to the public — — is timed to salute Brooklyn's own sexpot on her birthdate. [See the Annual Mae West Gala posting below.]
• • Only 6 more days until Mae's birthday!
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Artwork: • • Mae West • • by Larry Salk • •
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