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Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece
Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that...
The book inspired women to challenge the ties binding them to gender inequality and domestic servitude.
It broke marriages, or else caused some to be renegotiated on more equal terms.
- Camilla Nelson
- The Conversation
The Female Eunuch told women the project of emancipation had stalled.
Freedom would not be wrested from a process of reform, by “genteel, middle-class women” sitting on committees or…