Sex and Destiny (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Germaine Greer
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Politics
- Subjects: Politics, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Women’s issues, Oppression, Developing countries, Abortion, Childbirth, Fertility, Birth control, Birth defects, Population
Form and Content
In Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility, Germaine Greer, the author of The Female Eunuch, challenges the right of Western industrialized societies to impose fertility control on the rest of the world. Greer considers the social meaning of fertility and sterility, the history of contraception and eugenics, shifts in family and kinship structures, and the development of the concept of a “population explosion” (which she takes to be a figment of the imagination of racists and statisticians). Her long, dense chapters brim with...
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