Publication City/Country: London, United KingdomĪ vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor, but obvious, damage to the cover, including scuff marks, creasing and scratches, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with minimal creasing but no tearing. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks and was hailed by the critics as a 'polemical bomb' ( Guardian ) and as required reading for thinking adults everywhere. Here is all the polemical power that sold over a million copies of The Female Eunuch and kept its author at the heart of controversy ever since. With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing.Įrudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism. Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality. Thirty years since the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer returns to the subject of feminism - with the book she always vowed she would never write.
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