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Germaine Greer (/ ɡ r ɪər /; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
Mar 20, 2024 · Whatever she talks about and whenever she does it, Germaine Greer is impressive. Her latest media outing is an interview for British-American journalist Louis Theroux’s podcast, recorded at the end of 2023 when Greer was still 84.
Jun 14, 2024 · Germaine Greer, Australian-born English writer and feminist who championed the sexual freedom of women. Among her notable books were The Female Eunuch (1970), The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (1979), The Whole Woman (1999), and Shakespeare’s Wife (2007).
Oct 8, 2020 · Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that world-historic moment when...
Australian scholar and public intellectual Germaine Greer is one of the major voices of second wave feminism, and on her 80th birthday controversy still swirls around her.
The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
Aug 20, 2018 · Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual who rose to international influence with her book published in 1970, The Female Eunuch. It was a watershed text in second wave feminism, a bestseller around the world, and it made Greer a household name.
Greer has strayed, gone rogue, journeying to the wild zone, repeatedly for women – from The Female Eunuch redolent of Shakespeare’s virago woman, to her subsequent other main works, culminating in her important ecofeminist book White Beech, not to mention her prolific writings as a journalist.
Jan 7, 2018 · One of the least recognised aspects of Germaine Greer’s professional life is her international career as a journalist. It spans reportage in Vietnam and Ethiopia and interviews with figures...
Germaine Greer established her international reputation as a feminist through the publication of The Female Eunuch in 1970. As an academic her expertise was in English Literature, having completed a MA thesis on Byron at Sydney University and a PhD on Shakespeare at Cambridge University in 1967.
