Reviews around this date should be ignored. Germaine said some stupid things about the death of Steve Irwin -Crocodile Hunter- and that has obiviously upset some people. I don't agree with Germaines comments - or much that she was written or said lately- but that doesn't stop this book from being an outstanding book of the 20th Century.
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The hypocrisy of society is simply amazing! Despite claiming that women "have come a long way, baby," reality is they've barely touched the surface of the obnoxious existence they are expected to live with and "enjoy." Denied nearly every form of expression - from sexual to verbal - except for the occasional free-form of theatrical display, dance, and very measured boundaries of intellectual inquiry, they remain the Gender...
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I read Greer's The Whole Woman, her most recent endeavor, before reading The Female Eunuch--suddenly I understood why the reviews of the Whole Woman were so tepid-to-awful. I liked it, but reading Eunuch I realized that this woman had incredible style and swagger, but that she had written a much more delicious and fearless book back in 1970. In the intervening years, so much has changed for women (because of feminism) that...
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I began reading "The Female Eunuch" after I had read Natalies Angiers "Woman : An Intimate Geography". It caused a sensation in its time and is still capable of shocking. Ms Angiers may have borrowed from The "Female Eunuch" because she also divides her books in to chapters with simple headings like the "body" and "work" and this gives both books clarity and focus. Where they differ is that Ms Greer,s is on shakier ground...
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