The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970)

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
When he reviewed The Female Eunuch in the Observer, Kenneth Tynan recognised this ... But the temptation now to read The Female Eunuch as outmoded, suffering the fate of all polemical literature, would be to overlook its staying power as an inspiring beacon amid a hurricane of social change ... Despite occasional references to the new left, there is a striking absence of class war in The Female Eunuch....

If Kim Kardashian's naked selfie makes her a feminist, Zoo magazine was The Female Eunuch

Edit The Daily Telegraph 12 Mar 2016
As the reality TV star argues that her nude photo empowers women, perhaps we can finally appreciate the radical feminist message of lads' mags. ....

What Germaine Greer and The Female Eunuch mean to me

Edit The Guardian 26 Jan 2014
A softer, sweeter, more accommodating woman wouldn't have written The Female Eunuch, nor gone on to tackle everything from aboriginal rights to the bawdy poetry of the Earl of Rochester ... Years later, I was able to see that The Female Eunuch was not a political book; rather it was a breathless call to women to take on the world, to become adventurers ... The Female Eunuch never had much, if any, impact on my feminism....
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