“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-

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

Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession

Self-Help

SULLIVAN, Rosemary

Relationships

HarperCollins Publishers 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.

Catherine A. MacKinnon

Philosophy

Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

Coward, Rosalind

Social Sciences

HARPER/COLLINS.

One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS: A Woman in the SAS

Ford, Sarah.

In 'Black Feminist Thought' Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of black feminist intellectuals as well as those of AfricanAmerican women outside academe.

Black Feminist Thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment

Hill Collins, Patricia

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

This is simply an overview of the different understandings of the role of women in the different Christian traditions.

Conversations on Christian Feminism

Storkey, Elaine

Hebblethwaite, Margaret

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Discusses the psychological desire of many women to be taken care of, to have someone else take the responsibility for them, and the need for women to reeducate themselves out of such dependency

THE CINDERELLA COMPLEX - Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Colette Dowling

Psychology & Counseling

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