The Female Eunuch
The 1970 polemic that argued women had been cut off from their own desire, and made Greer famous.
Greer argued in 1970 that women had been cut off from their own desire and taught to be objects of it, castrated in her term, and that liberation would require refusing the whole arrangement rather than negotiating within it. Written with a comic ferocity that made it a bestseller and its author famous, it remains the most quoted book of its moment.
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Erica Jong
When I read Germaine Greer back in 1971, I was just delighted, because here, suddenly, was somebody saying all the things we felt in our bones but didn’t dare say. And she said it with humour and outrageousness and I loved that. I think Germaine has written many important books. One of the ones that has been most neglected is The Obstacle Race, about the fortunes of women painters. I adore that book.
Interview · August 2012
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