The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Greer, Germaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006157953X ISBN 13: 9780061579530

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.

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Review:

"This book changed my life. Germaine Greer is brave and crazy, serious and fun, sharp and sexy."--Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight."--New York Times Book Review

"A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity, and eroticism."--Newsweek

From the Back Cover:

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.

"The best feminist book so far . . . a book that knows the distinction between the self and the other, a book that combines the best of masculinity and femininity."
' New York Times'

" The liveliest, most sensible and best book yet on Women's Lib. It has an impressive scholarly thread, but its polemical dash and lusty jokes are constantly entertaining. Required reading."
'Observer'

"An exhilarating, polemical, witty book."
'Guardian'

"A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity and eroticism"
'Newsweek'

"brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight"
'New York Times Book Review'

"Intelligent, funny and beautifully written"
'Vogue'

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 006157953X
• ISBN 13: 9780061579530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432