The Whole Woman

Thirty years since the publication of "The Female Eunuch", Germaine Greer returns to the subject of feminism - with the book she always vowed she would never write. Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality. With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing. Erudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism. Here is all the polemical power that sold over a million copies of "The Female Eunuch" and kept its author at the heart of controversy ever since. "The Whole Woman" was a No. 1 "Sunday Times" bestseller for five weeks when it was first published in 1999, and was hailed by the critics as a 'polemical bomb' ("Guardian") and as required reading for thinking adults everywhere. This work is for anyone interested in feminism and gender politics as well as readers curious about Greer herself.