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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own answer. Susan Cheever talks about the "excruciating hazards of casual sex," while Gail Collins recounts her Catholic upbringing in Cincinnati and the nuns who passionately forbade her from having "carnal relations." Jennifer Weiner explores how, in love, the body can play just as big a role as the heart. The octogenarians in Karen...
2) Sexuality in midlife and beyond: Reclaiming your sexual vitality and putting the fun back into sex
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard Health Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
8) Three women
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Desire as we've never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six...
12) The uncoupling
Author
Language
English
Description
When the high school drama teacher begins choosing actors for roles in Aristophane's "Lysistrata," the school's women become inexplicably inclined to deny their husbands and boyfriends physical affection, which causes the men to become confused, frustrated, and offended, and both sexes begin to examine their shared history and sexual selves.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's early descent into promiscuity in the aftermath of her parents' divorce, her struggles with an addiction to both sex and male attention, and her later efforts to stop making desperate choices in order to allow love into her life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
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