Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present - Germaine Greer (Essay Date May 1970)
GERMAINE GREER (ESSAY DATE MAY 1970)
SOURCE: Greer, Germaine. "The Politics of Female Sexuality, Oz, May 1970." In The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays in Occasional Writings, pp. 36-7. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
In the following excerpt, originally published in 1970, Greer reflects on the nature of female sexuality, arguing for acceptance of the female sexual organs by women themselves.
From Female Energy Oz, for which I was guest editor.
One of the chief mechanisms in the suppression of female humanity is the obliteration of female sexuality. Historically the process can be traced in the change in the iconography of women. In the Middle Ages women were characterized as lustful, allies of the devil weaning men from God and noble intellectual pursuits; woman-hatred had a virtue which is lacking from more recent forms of stereotyping in that it allowed the women energy,...
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