Germaine Greer Summary

The author Germaine Greer (born 1939) was born in Australia and lived in England. The publication of her book The Female Eunuch in 1970 established her as a writer and as an authoritative commentator ... Read more

In the following review of The Female Eunuch, Roiphe objects to Greer's disavowal of motherhood, family, and monogamy. Germaine Greer is a charming, spunky, honest woman; I admire her direct... Read more

In the following review, Maitland offers positive evaluation of The Change, though finds fault in Greer's lack of practical instruction. I am 41 years old; my menstrual cycle, which for over... Read more

In the following review, Koenig provides a summary of The Change and Greer's unconventional ideas. Koenig concludes, “it's unlikely that many readers will march behind Greer... Read more

In the following review, Adcock outlines and analyzes Greer's theses in Slip-Shod Sibyls. This long, scholarly book seems destined to be received simply as another instance of Germaine Greer... Read more

In the following review, Mount provides a summary of The Whole Woman and unfavorable evaluation. “She's back and she's angry”—thus the Daily Telegraph puffed its ... Read more

In the following review, Kakutani offers negative assessment of The Whole Woman. When Germaine Greer's swaggering call for sexual liberation, The Female Eunuch, appeared in 1970, it created ... Read more

In the following review, Ward offers unfavorable assessment of The Whole Woman and Christine Wallace's biography of Greer. “It's time,” announces Germaine Greer in the p... Read more

In the following review, Linfield offers tempered assessment of The Whole Woman. Germaine Greer may be a lunatic. But after years of cautious, tepid yuppie-feminism—of being told that women ... Read more

In the following review, McCracken offers a summary of Greer's “so-called” arguments in The Whole Woman. Three decades ago, the English writer Germaine Greer erupted into the w... Read more

In the following review, Gordon offers unfavorable assessment of Sex and Destiny. Because this book about fertility was written by a woman suffering from infertility it elicited my sympathy even be... Read more

In the following review, Iannone offers unfavorable assessment of Sex and Destiny. Anyone reading this book might find it hard to believe that its author also wrote one of contemporary feminism�... Read more

In the following review, Blandford offers positive assessment of The Madwoman's Underclothes. Germaine Greer has never truly been a writer. Her spirit has illuminated her written word as if ... Read more