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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 devitalizes them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
In 2005, the book was the second most banned and challenged book in the United States. [11] [12] In August 2024, it was one of 13 books banned statewide by Utah's state board of education, allegedly for its "objective sensitive material." [13] [14]
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan (2003) The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust, Melissa Raphael (2003) "The Feminist Ghost at the Conservative Political Action Conference" (2003) [591] "Women's Peace Activism: Forward into the Past?", Joreen (2003 ...
Robert A. Wilson was an American gynecologist who is known for writing the best-selling 1966 book Feminine Forever. [2] He is also known for his organization the Wilson Research Foundation (WRA). [2] In Feminine Forever, Wilson promoted the use of estrogen therapy to avoid the menopause and associated symptoms. [2]
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]
Gustavson’s Eunuch Maker pay-per-view website shared footage of people undergoing “dangerous, unnecessary and life-changing surgeries” carried out in people’s homes, the court was told ...
The reference to "eunuchs" in Matthew 19:12 has yielded various interpretations. Roman law and post-classical Canon law referred to a person's sex as male, female or hermaphrodite, with legal rights as male or female depending on the characteristics that appeared most dominant. Under Roman law, a hermaphrodite had to be classed as either male ...
The book won Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year in December 2023. [3] In a review published in The Guardian , scientist Kate Womersley called the book "long overdue". [ 1 ] Writing for The New York Times , Sarah Lyall concluded the book was "engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail". [ 4 ]