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Germaine
- The Life of Germaine Greer
- Narrated by: Taylor Owynns
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Intellectual. Feminist. Polemicist. Provocateur.
This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of 20th and 21st century feminism. It reveals how her public persona has shifted with time from '60s trailblazer to present-day rabble-rouser, and why she endures as a subject of fascination.
This is the first biography of Greer for two decades, drawing on unprecedented access to her extensive personal archive, opened at Melbourne University in 2016. Kleinhenz has interrogated Greer's personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known her from her school days onwards, and read every word written by and about her.
Beginning with Greer’s troubled early life in 1940s Melbourne, it traces her career, her relationships with men and women, her travels and her home life and examines Greer’s work and ideas from The Female Eunuch to the #MeToo movement. The result is a rich, detailed portrait of a woman rightly both legendary and notorious - revealed here in all her glories, weaknesses and contradictions.
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- Jonathan Lowenstein
- 22-01-24
Fascinating woman
I was riveted almost to the end. Greer was a fascinating person who I would have liked to meet. I suspect many feel the same way. By the end I was ready to go, but my admiration did not cease.
It also gives an insight into feminism and to what Greer stood for.
As a child I grew up with the Female Eunuch on the bookshelf, next to Simone De Beauvoir but was never interested enough to read it (though I did read "The Trials of Oz").
I'm glad I listened. It was interesting and thought provoking, though by the last couple of chapters I was waiting for the end.
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