![]() ![]() That said, while her contributions to the feminist movement should be acknowledged and celebrated, plenty of the opinions she expresses and pushes in The Female Eunuch have inspired notoriously problematic impressions of contemporary feminism.Įven with the second-wave feminist context in mind, there are several issues I take with the views expressed in The Female Eunuch’s-views that continue to inform Greer’s opinions today. However, read in the context of second-wave feminism, and largely as a response to Betty Friedan’s 1963 masterwork The Feminine Mystique, Greer’s writing carries incredible revolutionary merit. With all its radical urgings and stylistic complexity-a maelstrom of sexual liberation, institutional takedowns and menstrual blood-needless to say, it wasn’t exactly a gentle reading experience. Interestingly, her 1970 bestseller The Female Eunuch was one of the first defining feminist texts I ever read. Germaine Greer is a famously controversial figure in the feminist movement, and with good reason. ![]()
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