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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...
- Criticism does not make her cry. “That’s the point of writing anything, is to get criticised. I’m not going to go home and cry because you disagree with me,” says Greer.
- Women today are not snowflakes. Greer believes that women are still discovering who they are: “I think women have changed. That’s the thing that gets me.
- Shakespeare informed almost everything she does. “I’m always surprised at how he got there before me, or how he was lurking the whole time. I’m now thinking about writing a whole book about rape.
- The Gentileschi painting in The National is mediocre. Greer has always championed women’s work, but get’s anxious about adjusting her own standards. Whilst not having a problem with mediocre work hanging on her wall, she does have a problem with it hanging in a gallery.
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.
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Jan 7, 2018 · Learn how Germaine Greer became a journalist and covered topics such as Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Explore the documents and photos in her archive at University of Melbourne Archives.
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Germaine Greer is an Australian-born writer, who is an influential feminist and social critic. Her abrasive style and criticism of patriarchal structures have placed her frequently in the public eye.
