The Female Eunuch

The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.

When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual li...

The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.

When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is a vital, passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.

杰梅茵·格里尔（Germaine Greer），是西方著名的女性主义作家、思想家，近代女性主义先驱。1939年生于澳大利亚墨尔本，分别在墨尔本大学和悉尼大学获得学士和硕士学位。1964年，她获英联邦奖学金，并赴剑桥大学攻读博士学位，毕业后长期生活于英国，现为瓦维克大学英文和比较文学研究教授。她和美国的贝蒂·弗里丹是二十世纪六七十年代西方女性主义运动的两面旗帜，其代表作《女太监》名列西方七大女性主义著作之一，深深地影响了西方知识女性的思想和生活。已出版的著作有：《女太监》、《完整的女人》、《障碍种族》、《性与命运》、《疯女人的内衣》、《莎士比亚》、《爸爸，我们几乎都不认识你》以及《变化：女人、年龄和更年期》。