Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.Specializing in English and women's literature, she has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. Based in the United Kingdom since 1964, she has divided her time since the 1990s between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England.
Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, ''The Female Eunuch'' (1970), made her a household name. An international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement, it offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women were forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfil male fantasies of what being a woman entailed.
Greer's subsequent work has focused on literature, feminism and the environment. She has written over 20 books, including ''Sex and Destiny'' (1984), ''The Change'' (1991), ''The Whole Woman'' (1999), and ''The Boy'' (2003). Her 2013 book, ''White Beech: The Rainforest Years'', describes her efforts to restore an area of rainforest in the Numinbah Valley in Australia. In addition to her academic work and activism, she has been a prolific columnist for ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Spectator'', ''The Independent'', and ''The Oldie'', among others.
Greer is a liberation (or radical) rather than equality feminist., All About Women festival, Sydney Opera House, 8 March 2015 (Greer and others discussing feminism; at 01:06:04)}} Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and "agreeing to live the lives of unfree men". "Women's liberation", she wrote in ''The Whole Woman'' (1999), "did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual." She argues instead that liberation is about asserting difference and "insisting on it as a condition of self-definition and self-determination". It is a struggle for the freedom of women to "define their own values, order their own priorities and decide their own fate".}} Provided by Wikipedia
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Sex and destiny : the politics of human fertility / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Slip-shod sibyls : recognition, rejection and the woman poet / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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The beautiful boy / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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The beautiful boy / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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The obstacle race : the fortunes of women painters and their work / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Lysistrata : the sex strike : after Aristophanes / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Shakespeare / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Daddy, we hardly knew you / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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The madwoman's underclothes : essays and occasional writings / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Shakespeare's wife / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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The change : women, aging and the menopause / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Lysistrata : the sex strike / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-, Willmott, Phil
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Lysistrata : the sex strike : after Aristophanes / by Greer, Germaine, 1939-, Willmott, Phil
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Kissing the rod : an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse /
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