The Female Eunuch - Hardcover

Greer, Germaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070243727 ISBN 13: 9780070243729

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1971

Synopsis

When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published in 1970, it created a shock wave of recognition in women that was felt around the world. It went on to become an international best-seller - 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 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. As Jennifer Baumgardner points out in her introduction, The Female Eunuch is essential to our understanding of feminism, for it reveals the origins of many of the attitudes and rights young women take for granted just one generation after their revolutionary introduction.

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From the Inside Flap

Praise for THE FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer

"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"

"In this classic text, Germaine Greer establishes herself as the bastard brainchild of Simone deBeauvoir and Valerie Solanis; a free-loving feminist freak and angry intellectual blazing the trail for modern day thinkers like Camille Paglia and Elizabeth Wurtzel; a pro-sex feminist before the term was invented. At times funny, at times ferocious, and at times frustrating, "The Female Eunuch" remains an important historical document, one which makes palpable both the passion and the venom that brought Feminism's second wave to life." -Debbie Stoller, co-founder of "Bust" magazine and co-editor of "The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order"

"This book changed my life. Germaine Greer is brave and crazy, serious and fun, sharp and sexy. The suffragettes may have invented modern-day feminism half a century before, but Germaine Greer made it hot." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women" and "Prozac Nation"

About the Author

Germaine Greer is a major cultural figure -- a writer, an English critic, a literary and media star, and a feminist.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070243727
• ISBN 13: 9780070243729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349