"The controversial book ""The Female Eunuch"" appeared in 1970. Who was the author ?"
The Female Eunuch The Female Eunuch The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages. A sequel to "The Female Eunuch", entitled "The Whole Woman", was published in 1999. The book is a feminist analysis,
The Female Eunuch book that "The title is an indication of the problem. Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives—to be fattened or made docile—women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigor for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed." In January 1972 "The Age"s reviewer Thelma Forshaw described "The Female Eunuch" as "the orchestrated over-the-back-fence grizzle ... based on the