Greer. Untamed Shrew
Wallace Christine
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Description: 386 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is some light shelf wear on the bottom edge.
Publishers Description: The 1st unauthorized biography of the wildly controversial, groundbreaking feminist has already caused headlines in England & Australia. Greer has called Wallace "a dung beetle" & "flesh-eating bacteria" for daring to write about her. Living her own flamboyant fusion of feminism & sexual freedom with tumultuous results, Greer put theory into practice. When she contrasted this version of feminism with conventional mores in The Female Eunuch, highlighting the extent to which women were the constructs & handmaidens of men, the shock of recognition it produced was profound. The women of an entire generation were compelled to reconsider their lives, their partners, their families, their work, their whole way of being. Later characterizations of Greer as a "bad" feminist or an "anti-feminist" miss the point. Germaine Untamed Shrew portrays an exceptionally talented, spirited, gutsy woman at odds with the family & era into which she was born, who went on to have a major, if ambiguous, impact on women in her time. Since then, Greer has continually challenged feminist & sexual orthodoxies, confounding the womens movement & generating headlines for more than three decades.
ISBN: 9780732908669
(218450)