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The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

  • 357 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1970
  • 23 editions
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1 About this book

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. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages.

A sequel to The Female Eunuch, entitled The Whole Woman, was published in 1999.

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Good for readers who want: psychology and feminism.

  • History and condition of women
  • Psychology
  • Women, psychology
  • Feminism
  • Social conditions
  • Woman
  • Women
  • Feminist theory

2 About Germaine Greer

Born 1939

Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specialising in English and women's literature, Greer 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.

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