The Female Eunuch
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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One of the most explosive and transformative works of the twentieth century, The Female Eunuch arrived in 1970 like a thunderclap, shattering complacent assumptions about womanhood, sexuality, and the structures of power that keep women subordinate. Germaine Greer argues with ferocious clarity that modern society systematically castrates women — not physically, but psychologically — conditioning them from birth to suppress their energy, desire, and autonomy in service of a patriarchal order that profits from their passivity. Greer's prose is razor-sharp, erudite, and bracingly uncompromising, drawing on literature, biology, psychology, and sociology to construct a sweeping indictment of the institutions — marriage, the family, consumer culture — that perpetuate female subjugation. A landmark of second-wave feminism, The Female Eunuch refuses to offer comfortable conclusions, instead demanding that women reclaim their full, unmediated humanity. Decades after its first publication, its central challenge remains as urgent and unsettling as ever: what would women become if they were truly free?
Author: Germaine Greer
Format: Paperback
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most explosive and transformative works of the twentieth century, The Female Eunuch arrived in 1970 like a thunderclap, shattering complacent assumptions about womanhood, sexuality, and the structures of power that keep women subordinate. Germaine Greer argues with ferocious clarity that modern society systematically castrates women — not physically, but psychologically — conditioning them from birth to suppress their energy, desire, and autonomy in service of a patriarchal order that profits from their passivity. Greer's prose is razor-sharp, erudite, and bracingly uncompromising, drawing on literature, biology, psychology, and sociology to construct a sweeping indictment of the institutions — marriage, the family, consumer culture — that perpetuate female subjugation. A landmark of second-wave feminism, The Female Eunuch refuses to offer comfortable conclusions, instead demanding that women reclaim their full, unmediated humanity. Decades after its first publication, its central challenge remains as urgent and unsettling as ever: what would women become if they were truly free?