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Exploring Family rents a 13-acre avocado farm for $450 a month plus the labor of watering 300 trees. There are only two rules: no drugs on school property, and no dogs inside the bungalow. The only schedule involves sporadic sessions on Women's Lib and natural science, and an optional morning meeting. Attendance is never taken. At one meeting a teacher named Anne (only first names, please) gently asked: "Can people start getting here at 9 o'clock?" Answer: "But we did, and nobody was here...
...gigs are rolling in, along with good money and praise from critics. It remains to be seen, though, if the male-dominated world of rock music is really ready for Women's Lib...
...most beleaguered males, it would seem that the U.S. has enough demonic spokesmen for Women's Lib without having to import them. But Germaine Greer, 32, who arrives this week to publicize her new book The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill; $6.95), has some outstanding credentials. A contributor to the European underground press and lecturer at the University of Warwick, she has a Cambridge Ph.D., lean good looks, an unquenchable stream of bright, wild talk, much of it unprintable, experience on the telly, and a new proposal for the oppressed...
Affirm the Libido. Most of The Female Eunuch is a thorough exegesis of the tenets of Women's Lib-exaggerated, unreasonable, but written with passion, wit and a bottomless supply of earthy words from centuries back.* Though Greer is erudite, her book is far less intellectual than Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, with its long, scholarly analyses of Mailer, Lawrence, Miller and Genet. Greer is more interested in the popular press, which she combs for illustrations of her thesis. To her, woman has become a eunuch, a poor creature castrated and forced into passivity by men, who have...
Forget about Organs. Greer is also concerned about the "clitoromania" of some of her American sisters. Freud believed that in the psychosexually mature woman, the primary erogenous zone was the vagina, but Masters and Johnson found the clitoris equally important. Women's Lib theoreticians were delighted, and Anne Koedt's pamphlet called The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm has become an important part of the liberation canon, bought today even by high school girls with inquiring minds. Greer takes bold issue with the notion of "the utter passivity and even irrelevance of the vagina." It is time...