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The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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The Female Eunuch

by Germaine Greer

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I read it in the 70s. Not sure I even finished it.

I never enjoyed her writing; finding Greer opinionated and self-congratulatory - probably just what was needed to get by as a feminist in the 70s. ( )
  miss.folio | Mar 12, 2009 |
This book changed my life. ( )
3 vote caroleyeaman | Nov 21, 2008 |
Definitely a life-changing book when I read it in the 1970s. One I could hardly bear to pick up as a wife and mother in the 1980s. I wonder what I would think if I re-read it today? ( )
2 vote maz111 | Jun 27, 2008 |
It's a good read, but more relevant to my mother's generation than my own. ( )
1 vote estellen | May 7, 2008 |
It's a classic, which is why it should still be required reading for any feminist trying to educate themselves. But it's very, very much of its time, very much the work of a second waver with all the problematic attitudes towards sexuality, homosexuality and race that that implies. Worth reading as an historical record, but not something that I base my own thought on, really. ( )
1 vote siriaeve | Apr 27, 2008 |
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Greer’s books may have self-contradictory elements, and I must admit that as a 21st-century reader, I’ve found that they can be choppy and manifesto-like, with off-putting wild generalizations and quasi-magical terminology... But then I turned to her chapter called “Family”... Bingo.
 
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The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.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. 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 vital, passionately argued social commentary that 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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