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Pornography and Silence
In this remarkable book Susan Griffin brings to the subject of pornography the insights of a poet and philosopher. She exposes the horror that pornography is, and the conditions which sustain it, and also suggests that healing can begin only when the splits in our society - between spirit and matter, black and white, male and female - can be seen to be different aspects of the same whole.
Susan Griffin draws on an immense range of material to make a devastating analysis of the pornographic/racist mind. This is the mind which opposes itself to woman and to 'the other' (men and women of other races, 'the Jew') and which imagines that liberation means the humiliation of those women, those races. This is the mind which sees the bodies of women as symbols for natural feeling and the power of nature. Under the pornographer's desire to humiliate, to see women mastered, bound, silenced and beaten, is his intense feeling of humiliation by his own body.
Susan Griffin asks that we save what is fine in our culture by turning our attention to the disease of pornography; that we face the bitterness of understanding what that disease is about; that we recognise how deeply antipathetic it is to true eroticism: the expression of the life forces through love.
