1981
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
288
Number of Pages
A profound analysis of how pornography impacts on the relationship between men and women. Maintaining that sado-masochism has become endemic to our society, Griffin considers pornography as a crucial expression of modern culture and surveys the plots and images of pornographic books, movies, and magazines. "A serious effort to apply feminist insights to sexual psychology."—Ellis Willis, New York Times Book Review
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
116
5 STARS
33%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
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Author
Susan Griffin
Author · 11 books
Susan Griffin is an award winning poet, writer, essayist and playwright who has written 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 recipient of an Emmy for her play Voices, an NEA grant and a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation. Her latest work, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, on being an American Citizen has been called "fresh, probing" and "incisive" by Booklist.
