The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970, which became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia. It has been translated into eleven languages. The book is a feminist analysis, written with a mixture of polemic and scholarly research. It was a key text of the femin... more

The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970, which became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia. It has been translated into eleven languages. The book is a feminist analysis, written with a mixture of polemic and scholarly research. It was a key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s, broadly discussed or criticized by other feminists and the wider community, particularly through the author's high profile in the broadcast media. In sections titled Soul, Love and Hate the author examines historical definitions of women's perception of self and uses a premise of imposed limitations to critique modern consumer societies, female "normality" and masculine shaping of stereotypes. In contrast to earlier feminist works, Greer uses humour, boldness and coarse language to present a direct and candid... less