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by Germaine Greer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; (Relaunch) edition (15 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007205015
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007205011
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,995 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A dazzling tract, erudite, outrageous, funny.' Cosmopolitan 'Brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight!The best feminist book so far' New York Times 'A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity and eroticism.' Newsweek 'Intelligent, funny and beautifully written' Vogue 'Germaine Greer in THE FEMALE EUNUCH converted me to Women's Lib, as much by her bawdy sense of humour as by the bite of her polemic' Kenneth Tynan, Observer 'A fine, continuous flow of angry power!terrific polemical force' Listener

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A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, THE FEMALE EUNUCH is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic. Probably the most famous, most widely read book on feminism ever.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Passion, Brains and Brilliance..., 23 July 2007
By I. Losada "Isabel Losada" (London) - See all my reviews
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It's important to remember that this book was written in the 1970s when the workplace didn't look the way that it looks now. Women now may complain that they still don't have equal pay for doing equal jobs - but in the 1970s they didn't even expect equal pay. We didn't have girls doing better in schools than boys - it was a world where women genuinely saw themselves as second class citizens and many had a feeling of inferiority to men that was deeply ingrained. Young women leaving university in 2007 have very little trace of this and are aware that a woman's brain is in many ways and in many subjects better for many jobs than a man's is. It isn't that either is better - they are just different.

Germaine Greer wrote a book that influenced her generation and a stunningly written book it is too. She is erudite and full of passion and, much to my surprise - not really anti men at all. It was the status quo that Greer hated - the two up two down slavery that she saw enslaving women. (Wouldn't it be good to have someone whose job is to keep your house clean, bring up your children, have a meal ready when you get home and 'provide' sex whenever you want it. This book needs to be read in that context.. the alarming thing is that so much of what Greer attacks so brilliantly is still around us today. Despite her warnings - in some areas we have made very little progress.

This is a classic - read it. And you may need a dictionary. I did. :-)
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53 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Over-rated sensationlist and hate-filled, 30 April 2001
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This book only deserves attention because it is so sensationalist. When I first read it at the age of 18 I felt that, as a young woman, I was being mentally assaulted by the author for being female; she really does not seem to like the average woman who longs to feel secure in her femininity very much. It is a rant that makes interesting anecdotal points but has too little backup evidence. No historical point is traced thoroughly through documents. The basic assumption of the book is a pseudo-Marxist one; men and women are two political classes and the former has been oppressing the latter throughout history until along came the swinging sixties. Greer blames women for having been supposedly brainwashed by men and the patriarchal order into accepting femininity, which insofar as behaviour is concerned, she clearly sees as a social construct foisted upon women. No doubt there is real room for investigating this claim, because certain social norms of femininity (and masculinity) vary between societies, but Matt Ridley has shown in The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, that these differences are less significance than universal similarities. Greer is too keen to take up the sort of view espoused from Rousseau to Margaret Mead et al.that it is western civilisation that has been most oppressive upon women, whereas there exist 'liberated' societies of 'noble savages' elsewhere. Again, evolutionary science and anthropology will show evidence to the contrary. It must be said clearly to Greer and all other western feminists that it is precisely western civilisation, and the fact that the notion of human rights and civil liberties originated in the Judeo-Christian tradition, that has provided the fertile soil for feminism in the first place. Everybody who reads this book should read the rejoinder to it, 'The Female Woman' by the Greek femal economist Arianna Stassinopoulos. That book contains much more accurate cross-cultural evidence and is much more realistic about the strengths and weaknesses of both women and men.
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14 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars still relevant after nearly 30 years!, 15 May 1999
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this book was written long before i was born, but i was shocked to see how little society has moved on. women in 1999 still face many of the same obstacles as in the 1960s and 1970s. greer writes with such passion and humour that you can't help agreeing!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Written nearly 40 years ago but still relevant
This book needs to be read in the context of the time in which it was written - late 1960s - early 1970s. Were things different then? Read more
Published 1 month ago by Damaskcat

4.0 out of 5 stars book
good xmas gift just what she asked for. Good price and arrived in good time
Published 12 months ago by Mrs. Me Wyatt

2.0 out of 5 stars One in a long line
GG is obviously an intelligent and erudite woman who articulates this page by page in an academic style. Read more
Published 13 months ago by SJB

3.0 out of 5 stars Very difficult to get on with
I found this book very difficult to get on with, as I just couldn't identify with a lot of what she was saying, I did try and imagine what it would be like in the 70s etc thinking... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2007 by I. Thomas

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit dissapointing
I had been looking forward to reading this book after hearing how Germaine Greer has influenced so many women throughout the years. I was, however, dissapointed. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2003 by Ms. D. Hutchison

1.0 out of 5 stars Personal bitterness fuels every sentence
Having been told this was a book all men should read I did my duty. I then read a bio of her life. Sadly much of what GG says has little to do with the real world and most of... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars A book for everybody
I discovered how little we know ourselves. This is a book every single woman should read before too late and, also, this is a book every MALE should know about. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Grrr!
Every baby girl should be sent home from hospital with their mum and a copy of this book. Passionate, fiery ;intellectual but earthy, Germaine Greer was the original and best... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2001

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