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The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
Elwood beach. The skyline of the Melbourne city centre is visible in the distance.. Greer was born in Melbourne to a Catholic family, the elder of two girls followed by a boy. . Her father called himself Eric Reginald ("Reg") Greer; he told her he had been born in South Africa, but she learned after his death that he was born Robert Hamilton King in Launceston, Tasmania
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Figes's best known work is Patriarchal Attitudes, a feminist polemic written in 1970, published one month before Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The book argued that nurture rather than nature has shaped all secondary sex characteristics and considered why prominent female figures of the nineteenth century were ambivalent or hostile towards ...
In 1970, British feminist Germaine Greer published her book, The Female Eunuch, which garnered international acclaim from feminists on an international scale. [55] In 1971 Juliet Mitchell's Woman's Estate was released and extracts of the book were widely disseminated and discussed in local consciousness raising sessions. [56]
Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970) questions the self-limiting role of the woman homemaker. The widespread interest in women's writing is related to a general reassessment and expansion of the literary canon.
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Sexual Politics has been seen as a classic feminist text, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", [1] and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire", [14] though like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970), its status has declined. [15]