SOURCE: “The Trouble With Women,” in Washington Post Book World, May 23, 1999, p. 8.

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 preface—or “recantation”—to her new book, “to get angry again.”

Oh. Had she stopped? According to her biographer, Christine Wallace, “Dr. Grrrr” has been angry with the world since she was a child in 1940s Melbourne: with her parents, with men, with other women (especially other feminists, from the suffragettes to the ERA campaigners) and ultimately with society in all its multiple oppressive manifestations. After the great whip-crack of The Female Eunuch, Greer can hardly be said to have sat back paring her fingernails while the tyrants and traitors got on with it. Perceived transgressions large and small have regularly called forth trumpet blasts of Greerian ire, although not such...