Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure

ISBN-13: 9781138337220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 112 str.

Maryanne Dever; Anthea Taylor; Lisa Adkins

Opis

Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures of the second wave of the women’s movement. Drawing on newly released archival material, this collection of essays represents the first sustained attempt to assess Greer’s politics, her writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity.

Spis treści

Introduction - Greer now: editorial  1. ‘Revolution for the hell of it’: the transatlantic genesis and serial provocations of The Female Eunuch  2. The record keeper  3. Resurrecting Germaine’s theory of cuntpower  4. Germaine Greer’s ‘arch enemy’: Arianna Stassinopoulos’ 1974 Australian tour  5. ‘If we had more like her we would no longer be the unheard majority’: Germaine Greer’s reception in the United States  6. A feminist fashion icon: Germaine Greer’s paisley coat  7. The second best bed, or the female unique? Germaine Greer’s unlikely championing of love and marriage in Shakespeare’s Wife

O autorze

Maryanne Dever is a Professor and the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.

Anthea Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of three books, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016). Her next book is on Germaine Greer, celebrity, and popular feminism.

Lisa Adkins is a Professor of Sociology and the Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor (2015-19). She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.