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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 devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
Likening the torso to "some fibreglass cast on an industrial production line", Christine Wallace wrote that Holmes's first version was a faceless, breastless, naked woman, "unmistakably Germaine ... hair fashionably afro-frizzed, waist-deep in a pile of stylised breasts, presumably amputated in the creation of a 'female eunuch' based on an ...
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer (1970) The Liberation of Black Women, Pauli Murray (1970) [294] "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", Anne Koedt (1970) [295] "The Politics of Housework", Pat Mainardi of Redstockings (1970) [296] "The Revolution is Happening in Our Minds" from Revolution II: Thinking Female, Joreen (1970) [297]
Pages in category "Books by Germaine Greer" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... The Female Eunuch; S. Shakespeare's Wife; W. White Beech ...
In 1970, British feminist Germaine Greer published her book, The Female Eunuch, which garnered international acclaim from feminists on an international scale. [55] In 1971 Juliet Mitchell's Woman's Estate was released and extracts of the book were widely disseminated and discussed in local consciousness raising sessions. [56]
It's worth noting that while this theme of female silence is prevalent throughout the written fairy tales published in Germany and enduring in America today, this trend wasn't always the norm: Charles Perrault's French renditions of these stories place greater value on beautiful women who are also articulate.
Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970) questions the self-limiting role of the woman homemaker. The widespread interest in women's writing is related to a general reassessment and expansion of the literary canon.
“3 months old today! Kev and I really want to keep her little face off social BUT no one ever saw her smile because she was too little when we shot the magazine cover,” Menounos wrote ...