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I was pleased to review this book as I share with the author a deep interest in psychoanalysis, gender and women's issues, in literature, and French culture. Baruch is best known to the analytic community for her coauthored book (with Lucienne Serrano) Women Analyze Women: In France, England and the United States. Her other coedited works are Women in Search of Utopia and Embryos, Ethics, and Women's Rights/Exploring the New Reproductive Technologies. Baruch teaches English and Women's Studies at York College, CUNY, and has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature.
The author impresses by the scope of her erudition and is a pleasure to read. She writes well and with a sense of humor, which spares the book from being heavily pedantic. Many chapters have appeared as articles in a wide range of publications over the past decade and are relevant to her academic areas of specialization. As indicated in the title, the themes of women, love and power are explored from psychoanalytic as well as literary perspectives, though some chapters are of more specific interest to psychoanalysts.