Greer, Germaine

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GREER, Germaine

GREER, Germaine. Australian, b. 1939. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues. Career: Sydney University, sr. tutor, 1963-64; University of Warwick, Coventry, assistant lecturer, then lecturer in English, 1967-72; Sunday Times newspaper, London, columnist, 1971-73; University of Tulsa, visiting professor, Graduate Faculty of Modern Letters, 1979, and professor of modern letters, 1980-83, Tulsa Centre for the Study of Women's Literature, Oklahoma director, 1980-82; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, founder-ed., 1981; Stump Cross Books, director, 1988-; Newnham College, Cambridge, special lecturer and unofficial fellow, 1989-98; University of Warwick, professor of English and comparative studies, 1998-2003. Publications: The Female Eunuch, 1969; The Obstacle Race, 1979; Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility, 1984; Shakespeare, 1986; The Madwoman's Underclothes, 1986; Daddy We Hardly Knew You, 1989; The Change: Women, Ageing and Menopause, 1991; Slip-Shod Sybils: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet, 1995; The Whole Woman, 1999; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1999; The Boy, 2003. EDITOR/CO-EDITOR: Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, 1989; The Uncollected Verse of Aphra Behn, 1989; (with S. Hastings) The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, 1997; 101 Poems by 101 Women, 2001; Poems for Gardeners, 2003. Address: c/o Gillon Aitken and Associates, 29 Fernshaw Rd, London SW10 0TG, England.

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