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Germaine : the life of Germaine Greer / Elizabeth Kleinhenz.
Van Pelt Library HQ1413.G74 K54 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleinhenz, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greer, Germaine, 1939-.
- Greer, Germaine.
- Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Feminists--Australia--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Germaine Greer.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Scribe, 2018.
- Summary:
- Intellectual. Feminist. Polemicist. Provocateur. This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism. It reveals how her public persona has shifted with time from sixties trailblazer to present-day rabble-rouser, and why she endures as a subject of fascination. This is the first biography of Greer for two decades, drawing on unprecedented access to her extensive personal archive, opened at Melbourne University in 2016. Kleinhenz has interrogated Greer's personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known her from her school days onwards, and read every word written by and about her. Beginning with Greer's troubled early life in 1940s Melbourne, it traces her career, relationships with men and women, her travels, and her home life, and examines Greer's work and ideas from The Female Eunuch to the #MeToo movement. The result is a rich, detailed portrait of a woman rightly both legendary and notorious - revealed here in all her glories, weaknesses, and contradictions.
- Contents:
- 1 Who does she think she is? p. 11
- 2 A difficult girl p. 45
- 3 Changing skies p. 83
- 4 The Female Eunuch p. 126
- 5 The commercialisation of Germaine Greer p. 164
- 6 Wind of Tizoula p. 205
- 7 Recalibration p. 248
- 8 The Change p. 298
- 9 Coming home p. 324
- 10 Full circle p. 361.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781911617914
- 1911617915
- 9781947534780
- 1947534785
- OCLC:
- 1076521295
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