SOURCE: “Still Strapped in the Cuirass,” in Times Literary Supplement, March 19, 1999, pp. 6-7.

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 extracts from Germaine Greer's new book. Can one imagine house-room being given in such a quarter to a serious enemy of comfortable society—Marx or Foucault, say? This kind of mock-alarming reception is normally reserved to drum up custom for an ageing boxer or tennis star whose legs have gone but who can still gouge an ear or terrorize an umpire. Despite her best efforts, Professor Greer has always been held in some affection by those whose certainties she purported to undermine. In my experience, middle-aged tycoons are particularly responsive to her charms, much in the same way that Masters of Foxhounds often have a penchant for the ballet...