SOURCE: “The Female Condition, Re-explored 30 Years Later,” in The New York Times, May 18, 1999, p. E10.

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 a sensation. The book urged women to embrace their sexuality, to become self-reliant and to repudiate the passive roles in which they have traditionally been cast. It laid out these dictums with a rollicking sense of humor and a marked sympathy for men, two qualities in decidedly short supply among feminist theorists of the time. Indeed, Ms. Greer's book anticipated the thinking of later feminists like Naomi Wolf who would treat men not as adversaries but as potential partners.

Now, some 30 years later, Ms. Greer has written a sequel of sorts to The Female Eunuch. It's a book that is as sour as Eunuch was exuberant...