![]() ![]() ![]() Greer started her promotional campaign earlier this year when she opined that the rise in representations of sexual violence on TV was due to women’s enjoyment of watching other women being sexually assaulted and that women fantasised about being subjected to sexual violence. The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz In 1971, Life magazine excruciatingly labelled her as “The saucy feminist that even men like”, but Greer’s genius for self-promotion is that “From carelessly blithe hippy, she metamorphosed into a media-savvy professional.” This led to her other works, including Sex and Destiny (1984), The Change (1991, updated in 2018) and The Whole Woman (1999). Her ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970) which argued that women had become psychologically and emotionally “castrated”, turned Greer into an internationally renowned feminist. ![]() Alternative Entertainment The Life of Germaine Greer, the Australian Writer from the Second-wave Feminist Movement by Shruthi Venkatesh November 21 2018, 2:49 pm Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins, 46 secsįormer celebrated feminist Germaine Greer is no stranger to controversy. An Australian writer and public intellectual, she is regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. ![]()
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