Power and Sex

Power and Sex

by ScillaElworthy (Author)

Synopsis

Exploring themes as diverse as ancient Goddess religions, nuclear weapons decision-making and female circumcision, Power & Sex examines traditional ways in which power has been abused as a tool to dominate others - physically, sexually, politically and spiritually. Against this background the book outlines an alternative path which the author calls hara power . Hara power refers to the synthesis of physical and spiritual energy, and is also the synthesis of the masculine and feminine within each of us. This book demonstrates how to develop hara power through self-knowledge, through the body and through our spirituality and sexuality. It details how, in both personal and public life, the inner fusion of the archetypal masculine and feminine energies holds the key to the kind of power the world needs now.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vega Books
Published: 01 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 1843332515
ISBN 13: 9781843332510

Media Reviews
- I found this book fascinating.' Dame Judi Dench - '[Scilla Elworthy] has developed her ideas from close-up scrutiny of, and involvement in, the toughest, high-risk power game of them all - the nuclear weapons industry.' David Cohen, INDEPENDENT
Author Bio
Scilla Elsworthy PhD is Director of the Oxford Research Group, which she founded in 1982 to find out how and by whom nuclear weapons decisions are made, worldwide. She travels all over the world introducing those who work on nuclear weapons to their critics. As consultant to UNESCO she produced their report on Women in Copenhagan in 1980. Before that she managed a self-help organization in Africa, moving agricultural supluses to areas of starvation. She has a doctorate in political science, lectures in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan, and appears widely on radio and television.