Synopsis
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 Germaine Greer
See more books from this AuthorA blistering but stimulating British contribution to Women's Lib literature, covering much old ground, in which Miss Greer admits some libidinous pastures skirted by many militants.
Apr 19 1971 | Read Full Review of The Female Eunuch (P.S.)Today's reader may be struck by the half-familiarity of its political content – four decades on, our feminist fashions have become both more referential and less radical – but the resilience of its autobiographical material, its voice, raises a different set of issues entirely, for it prompts the...
Nov 19 2010 | Read Full Review of The Female Eunuch (P.S.)Forty years ago this month, Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was published – and women's liberation would never be quite the same again.
Oct 27 2010 | Read Full Review of The Female Eunuch (P.S.)An aggregated and normalized score based on 27 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes