Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to the body. Menstruation. There are a few times in her book where Greer shines, and this is one of them...
...Eternal Feminine," Greer's term for the stereotype into which society is pushing women, is a passive and pleasing creature. Like the eunuch of the harem, woman must please without being aggressive...
...Greer paints a bleaker picture of women's consciousness than we have become accustomed to. Several times she asserts that women prefer male doctors, which-at least in this community-is blatantly false. And her view of female friendships is dimmer than reality. "Those women who boast of their love for their own sex," she asserts, "usually have curious relations with it, intimate to the most extraordinary degree but disloyal, unreliable and tension-ridden, however close and longstanding they may be." Perhaps in her situation it's true, but for most of us here, the pattern has changed...
...most disturbing part of her, book is Greer's vision of the future. She acknowledges that it will be a struggle, but has a rosy vision of the ease with which all will be accomplished. While on one side she can describe the unhappy realities of the individual woman, when Greer looks at them in large numbers she launches into a Consciousness Three rap. "All literature, however vituperative, is an act of love, and all forms of electronic communication attest to the possibility of understanding," she sighs. Her call to revolution at the end of the book ranges from housewives...
...What Greer has given us is a good guide to a revolution of our bodies. But beyond the excitement of the first 50 pages, and the repetition of the next 150, she becomes, regrettably, the Charles Reich of the feminist movement...