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My Lead for Susan Griffin

Original: Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

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Award-winning

She is also a poet, well-known for her innovative works which commonly focus on female self-discovery and empowerment.

She considered to be a key influencer in the ecofeminist movement.

Her works also touch on democracy, war, and violence.

She has acted in films such as Mother!

My Lead:

Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist, award-winning playwright, actor, and poet, particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form works. She was a key influencer in the ecofeminist movement of the late 1970s. Her works also touch on subjects such as democracy, war, and political freedom.

Sources:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/susan-griffin

http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/susan-griffin/

To potentially add for Susan Griffin:

Griffin and Pornography

-Comment on views regarding pornography/feminism therein, potential source already implemented in article: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/griffin.html

Woman and Nature and Mother!

https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-conversation-about-mother-with-susan-griffin

MY ROUGH DRAFT: Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

Life
Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, USA in 1943 and has resided in California since then. She attended UC Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in 1965, and her M.A. in 1973. She has taught as an adjunct professor at her alma mater as well as at Stanford University and California Institute of Integral Studies. She currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Work
Griffin has written 21 books, including works of nonfiction, poetry, anthologies, plays, and a screenplay.

Griffin describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life."

Griffin articulated her anti-pornography feminism in "Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature". In this work she makes the case that although the pursuit of "political freedom", especially freedom of speech, could lead to a position against the censorship of pornography, in the case of pornography the freedom to create pornography leads to a compromise of "human liberation" when this term includes liberation for all of humankind including the emancipation of women. She argues against the collapse of pornography and eros, arguing that they are separate and opposing ideas.

In addition to her many published writings, Griffin co-wrote and narrated the award-winning 1990 documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties.

Griffin and Ecofeminism
Griffin's perhaps most influential work was her novel, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, which has sold more than 100,000 copies. The novel was first published in 1978, and draws connections between ecological destruction, sexism, and racism. This novel, considered a form of prose-poetry, is believed to have launched ecofeminism in the United States.

Griffin attributes her connection to ecofeminism to her upbringing along the Pacific Coast in the High Sierras of California, which she believes cultivated her awareness of ecology.

Griffin and Pornography
In 1981, Griffin released another controversial and stirring novel entitled Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature. In this novel, Griffin railed against the influence of pornography in culture, and mourned the connection to nature which is lost to pornography. According to Griffin, pornography's origins are rooted in a widespread fear of nature, and in a pornographic culture, men are told to take on the role of the "Killer", while women become the "victims". This, according to Griffin, teaches women to self-deprecate, and fuels an unhealthy, perverted culture.

In contrast, Griffin argues that "real sexual liberation requires a reconciliation with nature, a healing between body and spirit".

Critics largely responded to Pornography and Culture with contempt, many complaining that that it came off as more of a rant than realistic philosophical discussion.

Awards
Griffin has received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices. She is featured in the 2014 feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her nonfiction work, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War.

Writings (1967 to present)

 * Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her (1978) Ecofeminist treatise
 * Rape: The Power of Consciousness (1979)
 * Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature (1981) Sociological aspects of pornography
 * "Sadomasochism and the erosion of self: a critical reading of Story of O," in Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis, ed. Robin Ruth Linden (East Palo Alto, Calif. : Frog in the Well, 1982.), pp. 183–201
 * Unremembered Country: poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1987)
 * A Chorus of Stones: the Private Life of War (1993) Psychological aspects of violence, war, womanhood
 * The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society (1995)
 * Bending Home: Selected New Poems, 1967-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1998)
 * What Her Body Thought: a Journey into the Shadows (1999)
 * The Book of the Courtesans: a Catalogue of Their Virtues (2001)
 * Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen (2008)
 * Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, co-edited with Karen Lofthus Carrington (University of California Press, 2011)