Germaine Greer
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian feminist and writer. She moved to England (1964), earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge, and taught at the Univ. of Warwick (1967-73). Her book The Female Eunuch (1970), an analysis of attitudes toward women and a call for an end to sexual repression, made her a leading spokeswoman for feminism . She has also written The Change: Women, Aging, and the Menopause (1992).
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Liberating Germaine Greer.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 10/1/1999; Decter, Midge; 787 words
; I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance--and a most diverting performance it was. The year, as I remember it, was 1970. Norman Mailer had recently published a very long article on the then newly declared women s revolution and had succeeded, as was his wont, in
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GERMAINE GREER AT HER BEST
The Boston Globe; 9/18/1987; Christina Robb, Globe Staff; 710 words
; THE MADWOMAN'S UNDERCLOTHES. Essays and Occasional Writings, by Germaine Greer. Atlantic Monthly Press. 307 pp. $17.95. Germaine Greer bolted from Australia in 1964 at 25 to write her doctoral thesis in Cambridge, England, on the early plays of Shakespeare. Then almost as soon as she finished her
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Arts Wales: Germaine Greer at Swansea.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 6/17/2002; 18 words
; FEMINIST icon Germaine Greer will speak at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on July 5. For details call 01792 463980.
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The life and opinions of Germaine Greer
Evening Standard - London; 3/1/1999; David Sexton; 787 words
; GERMAINE GREER: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace (Richard Cohen Books, GBP 18.99) THE WHOLE WOMAN by Germaine Greer (Doubleday, GBP 16.99) THE personal is still political," affirms Germaine Greer at the end of The Whole Woman. She makes an exception for herself, however. Greer doesn't think
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WHITEFELLA JUMP UP: THE SHORTEST WAY TO NATIONHOOD by Germaine Greer
The Press; 4/30/2005; HENZELL, John; 142 words
; WHITEFELLA JUMP UP: THE SHORTEST WAY TO NATIONHOOD by Germaine Greer. Profile Books, 232pp, $24.95. Thirty-five years on from The Female Eunuch, expatriate Australian academic and polemicist Germaine Greer shows time has not changed her habit of wading into difficult issues that others might avoid.
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