Power and Sex: A Book About Women

Elworthy, Scilla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852307889 ISBN 13: 9781852307882

Publisher: Element Books, 1996

Argues that society needs to replace its distorted notions of "male" power and domination with a new inner power that is equally available to men and women

Review:

"- "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

About the Author:

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.