Germaine Greer Books

This publication documents the exhibition Stella Paintings, the first major solo show in the UK by the enfant terrible of British art. Stella Vine's paintings are exuberant, funny and irreverent. She is notorious for her portraits of Kate Moss and disturbing images of Princess Diana and the heroin victim Rachel Whitear, but she also paints her mother and her son from photographs and memory. Born in 1969 in Northumberland, Stella Vine studied painting part-time at Hampstead School of Art in 1999. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, notably New Blood at the Saatchi Gallery in 2004 when she first came to public attention. Stella Vine currently lives and works in London. This fully illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition Stella Paintings held at Modern Art Oxford, July - September 2007.

Period Ancient Greek Athens is in the grip of a futile, destructive war with Sparta and its men are fighting abroad, taken away from their wives and families for long periods at a time. The women of Athens have had enough.

The term "slip-shod sibyls", adapted from a gibe of Alexander Pope, encapsulates the common contempt for the half-educated women who dared to expose themselves in the pre-1900 literary market-place. In this collection, Germaine Greer argues that the problem is not that such women were ignored but that, when most women were unable to express themselves in written form at all, and only a tiny minority dared to write in metre, the female poet was given undue attention, flattered and exploited only to be rejected and humiliated in her own lifetime and forgotten by posterity. She argues that what has come down to us is largely unworthy of inclusion in the canon. In many cases, the texts are inauthentic and cannot be relied upon to represent women's work or women's sensibility. As much of the poetry is intensely derivative, it cannot be evaluated by readers unfamiliar with the poets' models. This study examines the life and work of an extraordinary group of women - from the myth of Sappho to the dishonesty of Katherine Philips, the enduring mysteries of Aphra Behn and the tragic tale of Letitia Landon, forced to masquerade as "The Child of Song".

This title explores various themes related to boys, highlighting their sensuality, flirtatiousness, and vulnerability, from being passive love objects to soldier boys and the female gaze.

With outrage and compassion, insight and scholarship, the internationally bestselling author of The Female Eunuch confronts the subject of menopause. "A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, bruising, exasperating fury of a book".--The New York Times Book Review.

With a mix of passionate rhetoric and sharp humor, Germaine Greer tackles contemporary issues facing women at the turn of the century. She critiques societal norms and "lifestyle feminists," advocating for a more holistic understanding of womanhood. From workplace challenges to personal choices like abortion and body image, Greer offers insightful commentary on the persistent discrimination and exploitation women endure globally. Her vibrant and provocative style makes this sequel essential for anyone invested in the evolution of feminism.

A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, THE FEMALE EUNUCH 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.

Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.

Germaine Greer recounts the search for the truth about her father, about whom she knew almost nothing. Her quest for his identity as well as her own took her from Tuscany back to Australia, into dusty archives, to India, Malta, to the high table of a Cambridge college and again to Australia.

Erscheinungstermin: 2000 "Die Frau ist zum weiblichen Eunuchen degradiert", das war Greers zornige These. Was ist typisch weiblich, war die zentrale Frage. Körperbau, Intelligenz, Psyche, Sexualität? Welche Merkmale bestehen von Natur aus, welche Merkmale sind das Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher Konditionierung? Diese Fragen sind seitdem heiß debattiert und - nicht zuletzt innerhalb der Frauenbewegung selbst - sehr unterschiedlich beantwortet worden. Lange Zeit galten abgesehen von den primären Geschlechtsmerkmalen alle sogenannten "weiblichen" Eigenschaften als Ergebnis von Prägung, von gesellschaftlichem Einfluss. Dann sollten die Frauen zurückfinden zu ihrer Natur. Mutterschaft wurde erst abgelehnt, dann hochgepriesen, für einige schien nur noch die Liebe zu anderen Frauen akzeptabel zu sein, andere versuchten mit unterschiedlichem Erfolg, die Männerwelt in den Griff zu kriegen. Latzhosen und Schla bberlook, die Absage an vorgegebene Schönheitsideale, wurden eines Tages lächerlich, Kostüm und Hautenges waren angesagt. Vieles, worum Greer kämpfte, hat sich erledigt, ebensoviel ist nach wie vor offen. Nachzulesen in diesem Klassiker der modernen Frauenbewegung!