The Female Eunuch

Name: The Female Eunuch
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Germaine Greer
ISBN: 9780008436193

Author: Germaine Greer

Narrator: Germaine Greer

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Published: 10/15/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Political Freedom, Self-help, Gender & Sexuality

Synopsis

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. ‘retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, is a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer’s searing examination of women’s oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic. Probably the most famous, most widely read book on feminism ever.

About Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is a major cultural figure – a writer, an English critic, a literary and media star, and a feminist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry on March 08, 2018

Disclaimer: Ignore this review. Greer hates trans people. The Female Eunuch is one of the touchstone texts of second-wave feminism. I'll admit, I'm terrified of Germaine Greer. She's on telly quite often and my god she scares the shit out of me. However, through reading her most famous book I now see......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on February 10, 2017

Luckily I read this book after I got married, otherwise I wouldn't have married at all. After reading it, I sat down to discuss it with my wife (it was immediately after marriage, and I had high hopes that we two could have long intellectual discussions in our life together). After I gave her a préc......more

Goodreads review by John on August 05, 2008

Brilliant. This book should be required reading for everyone, not just women.......more

Goodreads review by Zanna on May 11, 2014

Greer cuts through our absurdly patriarchal fantasies of romantic love, diagnosing the misery and anxiety they cause, and draws a picture of the female stereotype as castrated - a passive receptacle for male sexuality. She also implicates capitalism in shaping and reinforcing patriarchy, with some g......more

Goodreads review by Brian on April 08, 2021

I love how she shoots off her mouth and how it makes you think. I know lots of people take self-affirmation and self-righteousness to extreme lengths, and that can get tedious. But that's how it is with all good, healthy, entertaining things, and this classic rant is one of the most enjoyable on rec......more

Quotes

‘A dazzling tract, erudite, outrageous, funny.’Cosmopolitan ‘Brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight…The best feminist book so far’New York Times ‘A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity and eroticism.’Newsweek ‘Intelligent, funny and beautifully written’Vogue ‘Germaine Greer in THE FEMALE EUNUCH converted me to Women’s Lib, as much by her bawdy sense of humour as by the bite of her polemic’ Kenneth Tynan, Observer ‘A fine, continuous flow of angry power…terrific polemical force’ Listener