The Female Eunuch
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; minor scuffs, in mylar.
Published in 1970, The Female Eunuch ignited a global conversation that would reshape the landscape of feminist thought, arriving like a thunderclap in a world where women's anger had long been silenced and their desires systematically suppressed. Germaine Greer argues with incendiary force that women have been conditioned into a state of passivity and docility — rendered, in essence, eunuchs — by a patriarchal society that profits from their domestication, their self-loathing, and their sexual repression. The book chronicles the mechanisms of this subjugation, from the family unit and consumer culture to romantic love and the workplace, presenting a comprehensive and damning indictment of the institutions that conspire to diminish women's vitality and autonomy. Greer's style is electric — erudite, witty, and combative — drawing on literature, history, biology, and psychology to construct an argument of formidable intellectual breadth. Unlike the measured academic prose of many of its contemporaries, The Female Eunuch reads with the passionate urgency of a manifesto, demanding not just political reform but a radical, personal revolution in how women understand themselves and their desires. Decades after its initial publication, it remains a landmark text in second-wave feminism, as challenging and provocative today as the moment it first asked women the most dangerous of questions: what would you be, if you were truly free?
Author: Germaine Greer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, McGraw-Hill Book Company
Genre: Gender studies
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; minor scuffs, in mylar.
Published in 1970, The Female Eunuch ignited a global conversation that would reshape the landscape of feminist thought, arriving like a thunderclap in a world where women's anger had long been silenced and their desires systematically suppressed. Germaine Greer argues with incendiary force that women have been conditioned into a state of passivity and docility — rendered, in essence, eunuchs — by a patriarchal society that profits from their domestication, their self-loathing, and their sexual repression. The book chronicles the mechanisms of this subjugation, from the family unit and consumer culture to romantic love and the workplace, presenting a comprehensive and damning indictment of the institutions that conspire to diminish women's vitality and autonomy. Greer's style is electric — erudite, witty, and combative — drawing on literature, history, biology, and psychology to construct an argument of formidable intellectual breadth. Unlike the measured academic prose of many of its contemporaries, The Female Eunuch reads with the passionate urgency of a manifesto, demanding not just political reform but a radical, personal revolution in how women understand themselves and their desires. Decades after its initial publication, it remains a landmark text in second-wave feminism, as challenging and provocative today as the moment it first asked women the most dangerous of questions: what would you be, if you were truly free?