Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin is an author and social thinker, whose books on the historical fate of the female body (Woman and Nature), pornography (Pornography and Silence), and war (A Chorus of Stones) combine the personal and the political in unusual juxtaposition. On International Womens Day, Griffin was arrested for protesting the war, along with friends Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston and Terry Tempest Williams.

Palinism - taking advantage of feminism for personal gain

Palinism - taking advantage of feminism for personal gain Susan Griffin responds to The Wrong Turn... I think we ought to memorialize Sarah Palin's candidacy with a new

By Susan Griffin

/ 4 Nov 2008

The slow death of American democracy

17 March 2003 I am writing from America on the eve of war. This is a terrible night, the eve of a tragedy, one that we might have predicted as

By Susan Griffin

/ 20 Mar 2003

Civilians everywhere - hold hands

President Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first warof the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputation and following. Our aim, to h

By Susan Griffin

/ 6 Feb 2003