Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British, a professor of Shakespeare, and has spent much of her adult life as a "super-groupie." This is not to say anything against her sexual lifestyle. Greer has made it in a man's world while remaining sexually active and relatively uncompromised; it has given her a rather large amount of intolerance for those not as fortunate...
...BOOK is divided into four parts- Body. Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral...
This discussion brings emotions and the whole person back into the picture, which is fine, but also reveals one of her main blind spots. Greer often cannot understand that women who are unhappy may actually be so because of men. She is constantly blaming women, or "society" (not at all synonymous with men) for the problems in women's lives. She propounds this, one of the basic ideas of the book, in the introduction...
NONFICTION 1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown (2) 2. The Sensuous Man, "M" (1) 3. The Greening of America, Reich (3) 4. Future Shock, Toffler (6) 5. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko (7) 6. The Female Eunuch, Greer (5) 7. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Tuchman(4) 8. The European Discovery of America:The Northern Voyages, Morison (9) 9. Myself Among Others, Gordon (10) 10. The Grandees, Birmingham...
...Female Eunuch, Greer...