The Female Eunuch

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Summary: Excellent Points
Review: (Somehow my review for "The Whole Woman" ended up under "The Female Eunuch". )

Although I found this book to be an extremely compelling read and even a "feminist classic" I wouldn't consider it necessary to studying the movement. The main thesis and arguments are interesting and she manages to drive her points home fairly well and effectually. But she offers very few solutions, making this book insightful but not substantial. I would, however, certainly recommend this book to anybody interested in learning the role Greer has played in the movement.

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Summary: the original bible of misandrism
Review: As one starts this book, she will startle, wondering what is the world it is describing, wondering what kind of Medieval society is displayed here. Without surprise, she will discover it was published in London, 1970.

The argumentation of Ms. Greer is rough, pungent, beautifully written. She manages to get to the chore of an issue that, more than 30 years later, is still at the center of our thoughts, of our life and of our destiny. All does not apply - thanks heavens!!! - any more. Some is mostly historical information, yet it can explain why some behaviour are so safely embedded in our habits. Some is hair-raising, real, poignant in its realism. Sometimes we can recognize our mothers' way of life and reactions... if we are not lucky.

Mostly, we have to recognize Ms. Greer as a great writer, a powerful woman, and a human being of exceptional clarity. The book reads easily, as it is very anectotical. There is no display of science, but mostly a portrait of a way of life that is prevalent in our world.

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Summary: Greer has style
Review: I read Greer's The Whole Woman, her most recent endeavor, before reading The Female Eunuch--suddenly I understood why the reviews of the Whole Woman were so tepid-to-awful. I liked it, but reading Eunuch I realized that this woman had incredible style and swagger, but that she had written a much more delicious and fearless book back in 1970.

In the intervening years, so much has changed for women (because of feminism) that Greer's antics and ability to go head to head with macho rakes/serious artists (like she did with Norman Mailer in an infamous Town Hall meeting) is less notable. Still, Eunuch bristles with energy and youth and it makes me think, even though I was certainly not raised in the repressive forties and fifties.

I think that this book is definitely worth reading, especially to see how far we've come.

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Summary: the original bible of misandrism
Review: More feminist trash.Avoid at all costs.

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Summary: Shut your legs and your mouth!
Review: The hypocrisy of society is simply amazing! Despite claiming that women "have come a long way, baby," reality is they've barely touched the surface of the obnoxious existence they are expected to live with and "enjoy." Denied nearly every form of expression - from sexual to verbal - except for the occasional free-form of theatrical display, dance, and very measured boundaries of intellectual inquiry, they remain the Gender Eunichs both men and women rely upon them to be, in order to measure both morality as well as chastity in efforts of men to insure that the children they are responsible for are their own. While enormous strides have been made in both birth control, and safe abortions, males continue to emphasize purity, demure submission, and unreasonable role models that are anything but the privilege they afford themselves, both in public and in private, encouraging and perpetuating the myth of morality that women have been saddled with for centuries. If unable to resort to sexual mutilation to accomplish their task, they automatically, and in fact, usually accompany their rigid standards with social oppression and repression through all manner of forcible meassures such as ridicule, bullying, degrading remarks, and imposing higher than their own standards to define acceptance, or lack of it. Keeping women quiet, but performing, as and when they want performance, being the main goal. Most any method appears to be adequate in their eyes if it works. Enough already! Racial and Sexual slavery needs to be stamped out once and for all, along with the class horse it rode in upon. Class is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but rarely is it measured as it has always been, especially when the slaves are afforded their own rights! Haven't we learned this repeatedly throughout history? This constant addition to controlling everything about women must stop, or be seen for what it is!

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Summary: absolute crap
Review: This woman has continued to denigrate men,from the time this book was published to the present.She has called men "freaks of nature." How can you give any credibility to a woman that does nothing but make denigrating references to men?

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Summary: absolute crap
Review: This woman has continued to denigrate men,from the time this book was published to the present.She has called men "freaks of nature." How can you give any credibility to a woman that does nothing but make denigrating references to men?