Synopses & Reviews
The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
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“Brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight.” New York Times Book Review
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“This book changed my life. Germaine Greer is brave and crazy, serious and fun, sharp and sexy.” Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity, and eroticism.” Newsweek
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"The best feminist book so far . . . A book with personality, a book that knows the distinction between the self and the other, a book that combines the best of masculinity and femininity." -- New York Times
A ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling study of women's oppression that is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic--and a feminist classic
When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published in 1970, it created a shock wave of recognition in women around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller--translated into more than 12 languages--and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is a passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
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"Like a woman, this book gets better with age. Greer's punchy prose and all-too-true observations motivate you to go out and do something to liberate yourself-and other women." -- Leora Tanenbaum, author of Slut Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
A ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling study of women's oppression that is at once an important social commentary, a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic, and a feminist classic.
The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
About the Author
Germaine Greer is a writer, academic, and critic, and is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of our time. Her bestselling books include The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman. She lives in northwest Essex, England, and has taught Shakespeare at universities in Australia, Britain, and the United States.