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The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
2020 update: Greer hates trans people, so please disregard this review. No wonder her attitude towards homosexuality bugged me.
Female Eunuch is an eye opening book, for sure. It feels a little dated in some parts and I’d love to see a revised version which includes data from 30 years later (I am aware that Greer wrote a ‘sequel’ but it is more concerned with more mature women instead of young women). Greer’s arguments struck deep in me and the stories she told or behaviours she described mirrored so many patterns of behaviour and thinking in my life and my family that it was rather uncomfortable to acknowledge just how chained to society I am. IT is definitely a book I’d recommend everyone should read, men and women alike.
One thing that bothered me throughout the reading of the book was Greer’s attitude towards homosexuality. It felt like she thought it quite, well, queer in the sense that it was unnatural? I certainly expected more from a woman like her. It would have been nice to see more on how exactly lesbian women are made impotent in our culture – just because we reject the patriarchy or however Greer put it in the book, doesn’t mean we are not made impotent.
Female Eunuch is an eye opening book, for sure. It feels a little dated in some parts and I’d love to see a revised version which includes data from 30 years later (I am aware that Greer wrote a ‘sequel’ but it is more concerned with more mature women instead of young women). Greer’s arguments struck deep in me and the stories she told or behaviours she described mirrored so many patterns of behaviour and thinking in my life and my family that it was rather uncomfortable to acknowledge just how chained to society I am. IT is definitely a book I’d recommend everyone should read, men and women alike.
One thing that bothered me throughout the reading of the book was Greer’s attitude towards homosexuality. It felt like she thought it quite, well, queer in the sense that it was unnatural? I certainly expected more from a woman like her. It would have been nice to see more on how exactly lesbian women are made impotent in our culture – just because we reject the patriarchy or however Greer put it in the book, doesn’t mean we are not made impotent.