Susan Griffin

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Susan Griffin is an award winning poet, writer, essayist and playwright who has wrtten nineteen books, including A Chorus of Stones, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Named by Utne reader as one of the top hundred visionaries of the new millenium, she is the recepient of an Emmy for her play Voices, an NEA grant and a MacArthur Grant for Peace and Internnational Cooperation.Her latest work, Wrestling with te Angel of Democracy, On being an American Citizen has been called "fresh, probing"and "incisive" by Booklist. "

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avg rating: 4.04 | 51 reviews | 237 ratings | 22 distinct works

	A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 4.42 — 65 ratings — published 1993 3 editions	my rating:
	The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 3.55 — 58 ratings — published 2002 4 editions	my rating:
	Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 4.26 — 42 ratings — published 2000 4 editions	my rating:
	Eros of Everyday Life, The: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 1996	my rating:
	Pornography and Silence (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 1982	my rating:
	What Her Body Thought (Hardcover) by Susan Griffin avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 1999	my rating:
	Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen (Hardcover) by Susan Griffin avg rating 3.71 — 5 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Made from this earth: An anthology of writings (Unknown Binding) by Susan Griffin avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1983 2 editions	my rating:
	Like the iris of an eye (Unknown Binding) by Susan Griffin avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 1976	my rating:
	Pornography and Silence (Paperback) by Susan Griffin avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 1981	my rating:

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"Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist."
— Susan Griffin

tags: courtesans, virtue, women

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