“Everything begins with a kiss. We are born in our parents’ first kiss and our earliest memories are of our mother’s fond kisses. Kisses come on kisses, and of the kisses that follow none seems more intense than our first romantic kiss. We are kissed by fortune, by love. We shape our most potent desires with our lips. Kisses are the electric gates of love and passion. Like summer lightning, kisses dance, they wriggle, they slip away.”
Did kissing originate as a by-product of “pre-mastication,” that is, the transfer of a mother’s soft, prechewed food into the mouth of her infant? Does a poochor any other animalsmooch? Can a mother’s kiss symbolically suck out the evil force that is causing her child pain? How is a sniff-kiss different from a mouth kiss? And how does a lipstick’s rosy hue harken back to a woman’s subconscious labial awareness?
These tantalizing questions and many more are answered in Kiss and Tell, the first comprehensive book to embrace the subject of kissing in sensuous detail. Author and journalist Julie Enfield offers us a panoply of kisses, from the celebrated French kiss to the unforgettable first kiss. She explores how each of our five senses enhances and informs a kiss, and reveals the sometimes surprising chemistry behind desire. From a fascinating exposé of literary, film, and artistic kisses to a lush landscape of lipstick and iconic pouts, this playfully designed and beautifully packaged book is the ultimate guide to lip reading and a perfect gift of love.

Kiss And Tell

Politics & Social Sciences

Enfield, Julie

Women's Studies

HarperCollins, Publishers

Profiles the all-too-common woman of today, one who is self-disparaging and desperate to be perfect, and paints a healthy and reasonable alternative portrait emphasizing self-respect and self-worth

PERFECT WOMEN Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform

Self-Help

COLETTE DOWLING

Personal Transformation

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

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The blessings of a good thick skirt: women travellers and their world

RUSSELL, Mary

Biographies & Memoirs

Collins

Based on a documentary film, a photographic celebration of this strong bond explores the powerful connection between mothers and their daughters through five life cycles

The Story of Mothers & Daughters: Based on the ABC Television Special

Jain Lemos

Harpercollins

My Sister’s Keeper

Literature & Fiction

Kelly, Nora

United States

Collins Crime

Dustjacket is in excellent condition, binding is tight and unbroken, all pages are clean and unmarked. A dozen pages with downturned corners are the only condition issues that keep this from being like a brand new book. Unlike many copies on offer, this terrific book is here in the US and will be shipped and received quickly.

'THE PROSPECT BEFORE HER: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST 1500-1800: HISTORY OF WOMEN IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1500-1800'

History

Hufton, Olwen

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Alfred A. Knopf. New York.

"A beautifully woven tapestry of insightful corollaries and personal stories, offering fresh conjectures into the psyches of women and men in love." -- Elle Think of torch songs and the tango. Think of films such as Casablanca and The English Patient , of novels such as Wuthering Heights and Rebecca . Think of romantic, obsessive love, the hot bed of passion we fall into, the emotion we call true love. This is the subject of Rosemary Sullivan's provocative and fascinating book. Beginning with her own telling of a fictional love story, she then, chapter by chapter, deconstructs it, skillfully pushing back the layers of meaning to look at what is really happening. Using literature, mythology, film, and personal anecdote; with graceful writing and an intimate knowledge of the subject, Rosemary Sullivan has written a brilliant exploration of our desire for romantic love as she attempts to answer the question, Why do women love as they do?

Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession

SULLIVAN, Rosemary

Parenting & Relationships

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Only Words

When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Words that offer bribes or fix prices or segregate facilities are treated by law as acts, but words and pictures that victimize and target on the basis of race and sex are not. Pornography--an act of sexual domination reproduced in the viewing--is protected by law in the name of "the free and open exchange of ideas." But the proper concern of law, MacKinnon says, is not what speech says, but what it does. What the "speech" of pornography and of racial and sexual harassment and hate propaganda does is promote and enact the power of one social group over another. Cutting with surgical deftness through cases of harassment in the workplace and on college campuses, through First Amendment cases involving Nazis, Klansmen, and pornographers, MacKinnon shows that as long as discriminatory practices are protected as free speech, equality will be only a word.

MacKinnon, Catharine

Philosophy

Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

ROSALIND COWARD

Social Sciences

Mother of All Myths

Forna, Aminatta

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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