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  • What French Women Know

  • About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind
  • Written by: Debra Ollivier
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It's not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It's this: French women don't give a damn. They don't expect men to understand them. They don't care about being liked or being like everyone else. They generally reject notions of packaged beauty. They accept the passage of time; celebrate the immediacy of pleasure; like to break rules; embrace ambiguity and imperfection; and prefer having a life to making a living.

They are, in other words, completely unlike us.

In her groundbreaking and utterly liberating new book, Debra Ollivier goes beyond familiar ooh-la-la stereotypes about French women, challenging cherished notions about sex, love, dating, marriage, motherhood, raising children, body politics, seduction, and flirtation. Peppered with anecdotes from its Franco-American author and filled with provocative thinking from French sexperts, mistresses and maidens alike, What French Women Know debunks long-standing myths and offers savvy new thinking from an old sexy culture.

Less a how-to and more a how-not-to (how not to be dogmatic about love, how not to "date", how not to mourn the end of youth), it presents a refreshing counterpoint to the stale love dogma of our times, and offers realistic, life-affirming alternatives from the land that knows how to love.
©2009 Debra Ollivier (P)2009 Penguin
Popular Culture Gender Studies Love & Romance French Women
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Too much of the same thing

I feel like the whole book could have been easily summarized into 1 chapter, its was the same thing repeating itself over and over, just in different chapters and with different titles. Not really impressed by this book and didnt feel I learned anything new from it.

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