Susan Griffin, who has died aged 82, was an author, playwright and feminist whose 1978 book Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (1978), which explored the interconnectedness of the destruction of the planet, sexism and racism, is credited with launching ecofeminism in the US. Characterised by Griffin as an “extended prose-poem”, the book remains the manifesto of the movement today and has sold more than 100,000 copies.
The author of 21 titles across multiple genres – essays, poetry, memoir and political philosophy – Griffin described her work as “drawing connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and tracing the causes of war to denial in both private and public life.”
