![]() ![]() ![]() With passionate rhetoric, unique authority, and outrageous humor, The Whole Woman reveals how women have been. For anyone interested in the future of womanhood, The Whole Woman is a must-read. Thirty years after The Female Eunuch galvanized the women's liberation movement, Germaine Greer launches a fiery sequel assessing the state of womanhood and proclaiming that the time has come to get angry again. Whether it's liposuction or abortion, Barbie or Lady Diana, housework or sex work, Greer always has an opinion, and as one of the most brilliant, glamorous, and dynamic feminists of all time, her opinions matter. She mordantly attacks "lifestyle feminists" who blithely believe they can have it all, and argues for a fuller, more organic idea of womanhood. From the workplace to the kitchen, from the supermarket to the bedroom, Greer exposes the innumerable forms of insidious discrimination and exploitation that continue to plague women around the globe. With passionate rhetoric, outrageous humor, and the authority of a lifetime of thought and observation, she trains a sharp eye on the issues women face at the turn of the century. ![]() No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy none makes laugh the way she does."-The Washington Post In this thoroughly engaging new book, the fervent, rollicking, straight-shooting Greer, is, as ever, "the ultimate agent provocateur" (Mirabella). No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy none makes us laugh the way she does.-The Washington Post In this thoroughly engaging new book. ![]() Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write. ![]()
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