Wives Mistresses and Matriarchs Author:Louise Williams THis is the untold story of women of Asia. It is not a tale of the submissive oriental beauties of western fiction, but the true stories of prime ministers, factory labourers, business magnates, mistresses and prostitutes. It is a true story of extraordinary power and humiliating poverty in a region which is facing the most profound social chang... more »es the world has ever seen. It is a book about the pragmatism of public power of the women of the elite, and the pragmatism of the women of the slums.« less