| A Ladies' Book of Styles Contributor(s): Sasithorn, Prasopchai (Author) |
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ISBN: 154704862X ISBN-13: 9781547048625 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Sacred Sexuality |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6" W x 9" (0.38 lbs) 122 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book is aimed at women for a variety of good reasons. Of course, number one is that it was written by one. That is obviously important. But there is also a more general reason. Over too many centuries (in fact: millennia) large numbers of women have been abused. Of course, it is often pointed out that according to tradition, this did not happen everywhere. In the earliest times, there were Amazons, who ruled the world. But, for some strange and unknown reason, they disappeared. In the XXIst century, human behaviour is changing, as part of worldwide social and cultural progress. In the near future, it is clear that women will soon be in charge of Society and, naturally enough, that they will be the ones to decide how lovemaking is to be done. The signs are all around us. Actually, this process has already begun, and Prasopchai's work is simply part of making it more evident, as it develops in all modern societies. It is no surprise that an Asian woman should be the first to address this theme. One may surmise that Asian women have, throughout history, received worse treatment than those on other continents and thus have developed a specific form of resilience. So it is logical and indeed inevitable that this aspect of the sexual revolution should first have appeared in the East, before it could exist elsewhere. To establish and consolidate the new bond between woman and man will require nothing less than a rewrite of all the outdated conventions which somehow persist in public prejudices, but are no longer in tune with our times. This is the case in all of the main cultures. Prasopchai, however, is the first to have recognized that the most important issue is not to aim for sexual equality, but rather to tip the balance completely the other way for a period of time which will have to be long enough to compensate. In fact, she advocates that women should now play the leading sexual role until they are satisfied that justice is done and (perhaps) accept some degree of equality. For the foreseeable future, this of course implies that female dominance must become the accepted norm, and the whole of Prasopchai's thinking revolves around the search for the best way to express it in a feminist context. Prasopchai's message is of great practical as well as philosophical importance. She proposes a complete revision of the usual conventions, which have been falsely attributed to 'natural' behaviour. She is helped in formulating such views by the fact that Asian societies, although they have become, in the past hundred years or so, more machist (mostly influenced in this trend by contact with the West and by colonial dominance) nevertheless have a very long and respectable tradition of avatars, i.e. of Gods transforming themselves, both in terms of what they represent for humans and in respect of their sexual orientation. Even Buddha has female forms. The relationship between female gods, Society, feminism and sex is the essence of Prasopchai's subject. The book is illustrated with many drawings, mostly by a Russian artist Dimitri Alexandrovich Molchine, who seems somehow to have been involved in its conception. In addition to this controversial text (translated from the Thai original), biographies of Prasopchai Sasithorn and DA Molchine are also included. |