For those of us privileged to live in the relative comfort of the Western world, this is a golden age for women’s friendships. Ladies are no longer expected to confine themselves strictly to their ...

A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...

Americans are endlessly intrigued by the French: How do they stay so thin? Why do their children devour cassoulet and green beans without complaining? And how do they pull off all those adulterous ...

In a famous moment in Virginia Woolf’s 1929 feminist classic “A Room of One’s Own,” the narrator pauses to imagine the possibility of something previously not visible in her survey of literary history ...

It’s Valentine’s Day. And here at the Curiosity Desk that means it's also an opportunity to ask a few questions about the holiday that celebrates all things love. Who better to guide us on this quest ...

Few things define the French more vividly than romance and love. For hundreds of years, the French have obsessed over love and sex, in art, literature and poetry. From the middle ages to modern day, ...

Yalom (How the French Invented Love) traces the many iterations of heart iconography and its use as a metaphor for love throughout history in this dynamic study. When the heart shape first appeared ...

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