<div><B>“[A] challenging and provocative chronicle of an illness . . . an extraordinary number of ideas from, birth to earth, are plowed and seeded.” —<I>Kirkus Reviews</I></B><br/><br/>In this boldly intimate and intelligent blend of personal memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin profoundly illuminates our understanding of illness. She explores its physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects, revealing how it magnifies our yearning for connection and reconciliation.<br/><br/>Griffin begins with a gripping account of her own harrowing experiences with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), a potentially life-threatening illness that has been misconstrued and marginalized through the label “psychosomatic.” Faced with terrifying bouts of fatigue, pain, and diminished thinking, the shame of illness, and the difficulty of being told you are “not really ill,” she was driven to understand how early childhood loss made her susceptible to disease. Alongside her own story, Griffin weaves in her fascinating interpretation of the story of Marie du Plessis, popularized as the fictional Camille, an eighteenth-century courtesan whose young life was taken by tuberculosis. <br/><br/>Griffin insists that we must tell our stories to maintain our own integrity and authority, so that the sources of suffering become visible and validated. She writes passionately of a society where we are all cared for through “the rootedness of our connections. How the wound of being allowed to suffer points to a need to meet at the deepest level, to make an exchange at the nadir of life and death, the giving and taking which will weave a more spacious fabric of existence, communitas, community.” Her views of the larger problems of illness and society are deeply illuminating.</div>

What Her Body Thought

<div><B>A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty</B><BR /><BR /> In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues that, rather than encouraging expression, pornographic images and the philosophies that support them actually stifle freedoms through the dehumanization, subjugation, and degradation of female subjects. The pornographic mindset, Griffin contends, is akin to racism in that it causes dangerous schisms in society and promotes sexual regression, fear, and hatred.<BR />  <BR /> This violent rift in Western culture is explored by examining the lives of six notable individuals across two centuries: Franz Marc, the Marquis de Sade, Kate Chopin, Lawrence Singleton, Anne Frank, and Marilyn Monroe. The result is an extraordinary new approach to evaluating sexual health and the parameters of erotic imagination. Griffin reveals pornography as &ldquo;not a love of the life of the body, but a fear of bodily knowledge, and a desire to silence Eros.&rdquo;<BR /></div>

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Pornography and Silence

<div><B>A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society&rsquo;s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth&rsquo;s ecological well-being</B><BR /><BR /><I>Woman and Nature </I>draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth. In this singular work of love, passion, rage, and beauty, Susan Griffin ingeniously blends history, feminist philosophy, and environmental concerns, employing her acclaimed poetic sensibilities to question the mores of Western society.<BR />  <BR /> Griffin touches upon subjects as diverse as witch hunts, strip mining, Freudian psychology, and the suppression of sexuality to decry a long-standing history of misogyny and environmental abuse. A sometimes aggravating, often inspiring, and always insightful literary collage, this remarkable volume offers sanity, poetry, intelligence, and illumination.<BR />  </div>

Woman and Nature

<div><B>A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural values</B><BR /><BR /> Rape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America. In this courageous, controversial, and groundbreaking work, the poet, feminist, and philosopher Susan Griffin examines rape as an inevitable result of a culture that celebrates and rewards aggressive sexual behavior in men, and one in which male dominance and female submissiveness have long been considered natural.<BR />  <BR /> With razor-sharp intelligence, clear-eyed candor, and surprising lyricism, Griffin explores the psychological, historical, political, and societal underpinnings of this devastating act, which cruelly denies a victim her self-determination. By viewing the dark phenomenon of rape through the lens of her personal experience&mdash;and through the words of injured parties, writers, legal agencies, and the media&mdash;Griffin&rsquo;s powerful discourse is an essential contribution to feminist thought and literature.<BR />  <BR /></div>

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<div><B>A brilliant and provocative exploration of the interconnection of private life and the large-scale horrors of war and devastation.</B><BR /><BR /> A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, Susan Griffin&rsquo;s <I>A Chorus of Stones </I>is an extraordinary reevaluation of history that explores the links between individual lives and catastrophic, world-altering violence. One of the most acclaimed and poetic voices of contemporary American feminism, Griffin delves into the perspective of those whose personal relationships and family histories were profoundly influenced by war and its often secret mechanisms: the bomb-maker and the bombing victim, the soldier and the pacifist, the grand architects who were shaped by personal experience and in turn reshaped the world.<BR />  <BR /> Declaring that &ldquo;each solitary story belongs to a larger story&rdquo;&mdash;and beginning with the brutal and heartbreaking circumstances of her own childhood&mdash;Griffin examines how the subtle dynamics of parenthood, childhood, and marriage interweave with the monumental violence of global conflict. She proffers a bold and powerful new understanding of the psychology of war through illuminating glimpses into the personal lives of Ernest Hemingway, Mahatma Gandhi, Heinrich Himmler, British officer Sir Hugh Trenchard, and other historic figures&mdash;as well as the munitions workers at Oak Ridge, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, and other humbler yet indispensible witnesses to history.<BR />  </div>

A Chorus of Stones

<div><B>A brilliant collection of thought-provoking essays on gender, nature, passion, and society from an acclaimed feminist, philosopher, and poet </B><BR /><BR /> In <I>The Eros of Everyday Life</I>, one of America&rsquo;s most provocative writers and thinkers offers insightful and compelling views on a wide range of social, ecological, and gender issues. From a distinctly feminist point of view, Susan Griffin explores the intricate connections between science and religion, nature and society, women and men, and love and consciousness. She brilliantly commingles lyrical memoir with cogent social commentary, producing a colorful literary tapestry that examines contemporary life and culture, its contradictions and complexities, and the rise of new ideologies.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Eros of Everyday Life</I> showcases a decade&rsquo;s worth of the very best writing by this acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. It is an enthralling anthology that reveals the ways in which Western society undermines itself by diminishing both woman and the natural environment, and yet it is also a celebration of the power of passion, and the remarkable evolution of the human capacity for love.<BR /></div>

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Books By Susan Griffin (6 Books)

What Her Body Thought

Pornography and Silence

Woman and Nature

Rape

A Chorus of Stones

The Eros of Everyday Life

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The Eros of Everyday Life

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