Germaine Greer | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Germaine Greer


00:02:04 1 Early life and education
00:02:14 1.1 Melbourne
00:04:02 1.2 University
00:04:11 1.2.1 Melbourne and Sydney
00:06:29 1.2.2 Cambridge
00:09:49 2 Early career and writing
00:09:59 2.1 Teaching, marriage
00:11:07 2.2 Writing and broadcasting
00:13:04 2.3 iOz/i and iSuck/i
00:15:37 2.4 iThe Female Eunuch/i (1970)
00:20:56 2.5 Celebrity and journalism
00:23:53 2.6 iTulsa Studies in Women's Literature/i (1982)
00:25:24 2.7 iSex and Destiny/i (1984)
00:26:21 2.8 Move to Essex
00:29:08 3 Later writing about women
00:29:18 3.1 iThe Change/i (1991 and 2018)
00:30:26 3.2 iSlip-Shod Sibyls/i (1995)
00:31:37 3.3 iThe Whole Woman/i (1999)
00:33:38 3.4 On gender
00:35:48 3.5 On rape
00:35:56 3.5.1 Arguments
00:38:11 3.5.2 Personal experience
00:39:51 3.6 Me Too movement
00:40:56 4 Other work
00:41:05 4.1 iThe Boy/i (2003)
00:41:54 4.2 "Whitefella Jump Up" (2003)
00:44:13 4.3 iWhite Beech/i (2013)
00:45:33 5 Awards and honours
00:46:50 6 Contrarian views
00:49:21 7 Germaine Greer archive
00:50:06 8 Selected works
00:50:15 9 Sources



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Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She has held academic positions at the University of Warwick, University of Tulsa and Newnham College, Cambridge, specializing in English and women's literature, and divides her time between Australia and the United Kingdom.Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970), made her a household name. An international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement, the book offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women are forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfill male fantasies of what being a woman entails.Her work since then has focused on literature, feminism and the environment. She has written over 20 books, including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), The Whole Woman (1999), Shakespeare's Wife (2007), and White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013), which describes her efforts to restore an area of rainforest in the Numinbah Valley in Australia. In addition to her academic work and activism, she has been a prolific columnist for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Independent, and The Oldie, among others.Greer is a liberation (or radical) rather than equality feminist. Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and "agreeing to live the lives of unfree men". "Women's liberation", she wrote in The Whole Woman (1999), "did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual." She argues instead that liberation is about asserting difference and "insisting on it as a condition of self-definition and self-determination". It is a struggle for the freedom of women to "define their own values, order their own priorities and decide their own fate".