The Female Eunuch
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
One of the most electrifying works of the twentieth century, The Female Eunuch ignited a global conversation about the nature of womanhood, sexuality, and the insidious structures of a society that had long castrated female ambition, desire, and identity. Germaine Greer argues with ferocious intellectual clarity that women have been conditioned into a state of passivity — rendered, in effect, eunuchs — by the combined forces of family, education, media, and romantic mythology, all conspiring to suppress their authentic selves and sexual energy. A landmark of second-wave feminism published in 1970, the work stands as a brilliant, polemical synthesis of literary criticism, psychology, sociology, and autobiography, delivered in Greer's characteristically combative and exhilarating prose. Where contemporaries urged reform, Greer demands revolution — not merely of institutions, but of the inner life of every woman who has ever accepted a diminished version of herself as the natural order. Decades after its first publication, its central provocation remains as urgent and unsettling as ever: what might women become if they finally refuse to be tamed?
Author: Germaine Greer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
One of the most electrifying works of the twentieth century, The Female Eunuch ignited a global conversation about the nature of womanhood, sexuality, and the insidious structures of a society that had long castrated female ambition, desire, and identity. Germaine Greer argues with ferocious intellectual clarity that women have been conditioned into a state of passivity — rendered, in effect, eunuchs — by the combined forces of family, education, media, and romantic mythology, all conspiring to suppress their authentic selves and sexual energy. A landmark of second-wave feminism published in 1970, the work stands as a brilliant, polemical synthesis of literary criticism, psychology, sociology, and autobiography, delivered in Greer's characteristically combative and exhilarating prose. Where contemporaries urged reform, Greer demands revolution — not merely of institutions, but of the inner life of every woman who has ever accepted a diminished version of herself as the natural order. Decades after its first publication, its central provocation remains as urgent and unsettling as ever: what might women become if they finally refuse to be tamed?