CONCEPTUAL AND INSTRUCTION BOOKS
The Bibliography on Female Domination and its component SM has been growing in quality and amount in the last years. I selected some of the books that I have at my private library and I indicate them as consultation and illustration source in this matter..
1. Masoquism - Apresentation of Sacher-Masoch, containing the whole text of " Venus in Furs", Deluze, Gilles, (Braz. trad. Bastos, J.), Livraria Taurus Editora, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 1983. This essay of the philosopher and French writer, rescues the Viennese writer's importance - Masoch - as a revolutionary of the most traditional habits and it still brings the complete text of his more famous writings. Deluze writes: " the new man divulged by Masoch, entirely devoted to a cruel dominatrix that drops the virile institutions and promotes the turn of the matriarchy; stopping being, above all, this modern woman: hysterical that pursue as sleepwalkers a dreamed masculine ideal ...and that are never happy and they never give happiness...".
2. My Private Life - Real Experiences of a Dominant Woman - Mistress Nan, Daedalus Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1995. That book bill the private life of a non professional Dominatrix, family mother and who has a professional life of success. The reports are true and full of erotic contents.
3. The Mistress Manual - The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance - Lorelei, Berkana Press, Pennsylvania, USA, 1996. Lorelei is another non professional Domina and a writer very known in America. She made that " Manual " full of practical information that aid in the development of the Female Domination.
4. The Bottoming Book - or, How to Get Terrible Things Done to You by Wonderful People, Easton, D. & Lizst C.A., Greenery Press, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1995. Written by two non professionals SM practioners, one of them a therapist (Eston) and the other a marketing professional and writer that also adopts Lady Green as her nickname (v. title below). This book is an authentic manual for the submissive, very well tempered, and full of " clues " to please his Domina (and himself), even in the most "adverse" conditions.
5. The Sexually Dominant Woman - a workbook for Nervous Beginners, Lady Green, Edicão Reservada, San Francisco, CA, 1994. A good " manual " for the Ruler that wants to do her first steps in this wonderful world of the Female Domination.
6. Sensuous Magic - a guide for adventurous couples, <Califia, Pat, Masquerade Books, Inc., New York, USA, 1993. This book, is dedicated to the popularization of the SM art (it is not specific of Female Domination). It is excellent for who likes or practices the sadomasochistic techniques. It teaches with a lot of property how, when and why to use the different forms of obtaining SM pleasure, with safety, sanity and consensus.
7. The Training and Education of a Husband (vol.I e II), Gifford, Patricia, The Other World Kingdom, Vizovice, Czech Republic, 1996. They are two volumes that teaches how is the radical " training " of husbands in OWK. But it also brings many ideas in how to workout and to condition the husband for the Wife's full satisfaction. The author is the fouder and the Queen of O.W.K.. This book has interesting illustrations and the edition is bilingual - English and German.
8. A Vênus de Cetim - O S&M no Brasil, Azevedo, Wilma, Editora Ondas, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 1986.This is Wilma Azevedo's first book, a Dominatrix and journalist that began the popularization of SM in Brazil. There is many personal and exciting stories of encounters she had, including her relationship with a famous affictionated of the arts of the sadomasoquism in Brazil - Cosam Atsidas.
9. Fetiche - Moda, Sexo & Poder, Steele, Valerie (trad. Jordão, A.A.), Ed. Rocco, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1997. The cultural and critical focus of the current fashion and its relationship with sex and power. Richly ilustrated, it is a current reference to the fetishism of the fashion in this end of millennium.