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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.
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).
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Greer famously drew attention to deeply entrenched cultural constructs that linked sex to shame and disgust, calling out the hypocrisy of a society that blamed women for men’s misogyny. “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them,” she wrote. “The man regards her as a receptacle into which he has emptied his sperm, a kind of human spitto...
Too few discussions of Greer’s work fully appreciate its intellectual origins in the libertarian ideas of the Sydney Push. Greer was born in Melbourne, educated by Irish nuns in a convent school, and yearned for a world beyond her own home, which was, she says, singularly bereft of books. She moved to Sydney to study and fell in with a tearaway gro...
Intellectual discussions of The Female Eunuch often focus on the book’s appearance as a media event, and on Greer as a celebrity. It is a rich line of cultural inquiry, but occasionally leads critics to sell her work short, as flippant and ephemeral. The book was commissioned by Sonny Mehta, who met Greer at a cafe in Soho on March 17 1969, when he...
Greer became known — and still is — equally for her personality as for her ideas. This was perhaps inevitable because Greer had – and still has – a mesmerising capacity to make the personal political, and to play with the cultural gap between news and social norms. Her work communicated her ideas on a mass scale and translated what were then the ut...
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 ...
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Aug 20, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Germaine Greer, an Australian writer and public intellectual who became a global icon of second wave feminism with her book The Female Eunuch. Explore her controversial views on sexual freedom, femininity, revolution and transgender issues.
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 1, 2001 · When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement.
