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Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature Kindle Edition
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.
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 “not a love of the life of the body, but a fear of bodily knowledge, and a desire to silence Eros.”
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication dateJuly 28, 2015
- File size3889 KB
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- ASIN : B00Z8POVUW
- Publisher : Open Road Media (July 28, 2015)
- Publication date : July 28, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 3889 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 375 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,418,093 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #112 in Pornography
- #324 in Study of Pornography
- #990 in Counseling & Psychology eBooks on Human Sexuality
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About the author
Susan Griffin has written over twenty books, including non-fiction, poetry and plays. Her work addresses many social and political issues, social justice, the oppression of women, ecology, war and peace, economic inequities and democracy. Often she approaches her subjects at a slant, using and following the music of language, metaphor, stories and incidents from her own life to reveal the underside of larger histories and realms. Her book, A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a NY Times Notable book in the year it was published. Woman and Nature, considered a classic of environmental writing, is credited for inspiring the eco-feminist movement. The Book of the Courtesans introduced a hidden chapter in women’s history. Along with her co-editor, Karin Carrington, who is a psychotherapist, she has just completed editing an anthology called Transforming Terror, Remembering the Soul of the World, with a preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and contributions from thinkers, psychologists, spiritual and political leaders and poets from diverse cultures and religions, including Mahmoud Darwish, Riane Eisler, Fritjof Capra, Huston Smith, Ariel Dorfman, Dan Ellsberg, and Fatema Mernissi. She is at work now on a novel about climate change and a non-fiction book, The Book of Housewifery, about the hidden meanings and values in domesticity. She and her work have been given many awards, among them a Guggenheim Foundation Award and an Emmy.
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As a woman, it will make you question/ hate (the majority of) men's fascination & enjoyment of pornography - and simultaneously make you question the world in which we live in.
From humiliation, rape, torture, and the murder of women & children to the holocaust, the black slavery movement and the witch hunts, it talks for 260 pages of some of the most grotesque, unfathomable crimes of man.
I had to skim read the last 100 pages because I felt rather sick and a lot of the evil she was describing was getting unnecessarily repetitive. (hence my 4 star rating.) I did however persist because we do need to be aware, to a certain degree, of the facts of what she is documenting, especially as women, and especially raising a child in this culture. It has left a very bad opinion of pornography and man kind in general on my mind.