Lucinda is the author of three non-fiction works: Leading Lines: How to make speeches that seize the moment, advance the cause and lead the way (2019), True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris (2004) and Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilised Behaviour in a Barbarous World (2007).
Learn more about Lucinda's work at her website, http://www.lucindaholdforth.com.
Meet the dazzling women of Paris: from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Madame de Stael to Pamela Harriman; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, demimondes and diplomats, these women were utterly diverse, yet all shared one common passion — Paris, the world’s headquarters of femininity.
At a turning point in her life, Lucinda Holdforth journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves, and losses of its celebrated women. She evokes the city’s incarnations from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars and the Paris of the new millennium. As she walks in their footsteps, she draws inspiration from the fascinating women who created and nurtured the world’s most civilized city. Sophisticated, witty, and intelligent, this entrancing travelogue will seduce and inspire every woman in search of her own true pleasures.
發表於2025-02-10
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評分當女大學生在印度中巴上遭到輪奸緻死時;當李陽把美國妻子打得遍體鱗傷逃迴原籍時;當鄉間懦弱的丈夫躲在角落裏聽到妻子被強暴而小聲報警時;醜陋的現實終於倒影在波伏娃第二性的鏡子裏。至今,沒人能說清楚女性主義的主旨,但有一點是可以肯定的,就是在全世界實現男女平等。...
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