Germaine Greer, Author . Harper $26.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-153715-8
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Given the hysterical responses of some British critics to Germaine Greer's new book about Ann Hathaway, one expects wild-eyed surmises about that woman's life. Instead, Greer offers a richly textured...
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Germaine Greer, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (422p) ISBN 978-0-394-58269-6
Menopause, Greer believes, should be a time of stock-taking, of spiritual as well as physical change, when the middle-aged woman, rejecting the roles held out by patriarchal society, attains a mature serenity and power. In a wise, witty and...
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Germaine Greer, Author Ballantine Books $19 (324p) ISBN 978-0-449-90561-6
Greer learns the reasons behind her father's emotionally distant behavior and though her narrative ``suffers from purple-hued padding, self-dramatization and a glaring dearth of factual evidence about her father's adult life, it's worth sticking...
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Germaine Greer, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $0 (305p) ISBN 978-0-87113-160-7
Greer finds it ironic that The Female Eunuch hoisted her reputation as an architect of the permissive society. In essays reprinted here from London's underground journal Oz and other magazines, she argues that the relaxation of sexual taboos was not
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Germaine Greer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-394-58313-6
Greer's father, an Australian intelligence officer, left for WW II when she was only four. His cavalier pose concealed a family secret revealed in the closing section of this poignant memoir by the author of The Female Eunuch . Reg Greer came back...
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Germaine Greer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-40747-5
The blithe spirit of The Female Eunuch--a tart, irreverent feminist screed that crackled across the Western world in 1971--has given way to the surprisingly curmudgeonly temperament of Greer's latest effort, with its dim view of humanity and our...
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Germaine Greer, Author Rizzoli International Publications $45 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8478-2586-8
Greer has made a career of the controversial polemic, most explosively in the 1970s with The Female Eunuch, brazenly arguing for women's sexual liberation. Decades later, the Australian-born sensualist seeks to redress another wrong: heterosexual...
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Germaine Greer. Bloomsbury, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-62040-611-3
Greer (The Female Eunuch) has written a love letter to a rainforest, one that she just happens to own. In her middle years, Greer set out to find a property in her native Australia that she could restore to its state before white colonists imposed...
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