Susan Griffin: 14 books
What Her Body Thought
A Journey Into the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In this boldly intimate and intelligent blend of personal memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, 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...
Pornography and Silence
Culture's Revenge Against Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of liberty
In this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography. Griffin argues...
The Book of the Courtesans
A Catalogue of Their Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2002
From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent women, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom.
While they charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men honing...
A Chorus of Stones
The Private Life of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A brilliant and provocative exploration of the interconnection of private life and the large-scale horrors of war and devastation.
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award, Susan Griffin’s A Chorus of Stones...
Rape
The Politics of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural values
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...
Woman and Nature
The Roaring Inside Her
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society’s mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth’s ecological well-being
Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the...
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
On Being an American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
What does is it mean to be a citizen of the United States? Susan Griffin’s provocative investigation of that question takes us from the Declaration of Independence to the Iraq War, with many stops in between. Her conclusion: democracy is nothing less than a revolution of consciousness, and the revolution has just begun.
The Eros of Everyday Life
Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A brilliant collection of thought-provoking essays on gender, nature, passion, and society from an acclaimed feminist, philosopher, and poet
In The Eros of Everyday Life, one of America’s most provocative writers and thinkers offers insightful and compelling views on a wide range of social,...
Sekhmet Rising
The Restlessness of Women’s Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
About the Book Project My life is filled with amazing women! The work I do invites women to discover more about themselves and what is meaningful for them. It also demands that we recognize that women must lead us into the future. The Sekhmet Rising Book Project is our first step in that direction. Over...
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Mark Kurlansky, Paul Fleischman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Welcome to 1968 — a revolution in a book. Essays, memoirs, and more by fourteen award-winning authors offer unique perspectives on one of the world’s most tumultuous years.
Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans...
A Journey of Words
35 Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world.
In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last...
Small-Town Brides Romance Collection
9 Romances Develop Under the Watchful Eyes of Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Join the fun and feel the romance in various historical communities from Massachusetts to Florida, Missouri to Texas. Meet ladies who take firm stands for their work in mills, orphanages, churches, schools, hospitals, and the like as they dance through courtship with their beaus. Can the nine couples develop lasting loves under the watchful eyes of their neighbors?
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect...