The female eunuch
(2008)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
305.42/GREER,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 305.42/GREER,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008
EDITION
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition
DESCRIPTION

397 pages, 27 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780061579530, 006157953X, 9780061579530, 006157953X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"21st anniversary edition"--Page 9

Body: Gender : Bones ; Curves ; Hair ; Sex ; The Wicked Womb -- Soul: The Stereotype : Energy ; Baby ; Girl ; Puberty ; The Psychological Sell ; The Raw Material ; Womanpower ; Work -- Love: The Ideal : Altruism ; Egotism ; Obsession ; Romance ; The Object of Male Fantasy ; The Middle-Class Myth of Love and Marriage ; Family ; Security -- Hate: Loathing and Disgust : Abuse ; Misery ; Resentment ; Rebellion -- Revolution

The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved

"First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee Ltd in 1970"--Title page verso

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