The Whole Woman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Germaine Greer
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Women’s issues and current affairs
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Gender roles, Marriage, Child abuse, Domestic violence, Feminism, Women’s issues, Modernization
Mellowed perhaps by the years since she published The Female Eunuch (1970) but still outrageous in her witticisms and puns, Germaine Greer, in The Whole Woman, takes on the whole of the industrialized world (and thus the whole world) in her indictment of the situation facing women at the end of the twentieth century. “It’s time to get angry again,” she writes in her opening recantation of her vow not to write a sequel to The Female Eunuch. Greer, professor of English and comparative literature at Warwick University, England, has made a name for herself as a...
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