For the one in 25 teenage girls in Britain who are already anorexic, the one in four British women who experience domestic violence or the half million outworkers in the UK who earn less than £56 a week, feminism has definitely not gone too far – it hasn’t gone far enough! In her introduction, Greer states that “in a world system that creates billions of losers for every handful of winners, it’s time to get angry again.” Getting angry isn’t difficult. Greer’s writing style is “In Ya Face.” It is full of real women, real stories, real lives. But the book is not a compendium of faceless statistics. The 35 chapters, each with an enticing one-word title, present abundant and meticulous research about women’s oppression in the ‘90s. She reveals the source of her passion and takes aim at the likes of Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique : “It was not until feminists of my own generation began to assert with apparent seriousness that feminism had gone too far that the fire flared up in my belly.” Greer is similarly scornful of one-time feminists caught up in the backlash.
It demolishes narcissistic claims by an elite group of lifestyle feminist that women now have it all – money, sex and fashion.
The Whole Woman is a sequel to The Female Eunuch, one of several books which inspired a generation of women in the ‘70s. Greer wrote the book she said she’d never write. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks and was hailed by the critics as a 'polemical bomb' (Guardian) and as required reading for thinking adults everywhere.A friend of mine has a clever T-shirt which reads “I’ll be a post-feminist in post-patriarchy.” Germaine Greer’s new book, The Whole Woman, is a book version of the T-shirt. Here is all the polemical power that sold over a million copies of The Female Eunuch and kept its author at the heart of controversy ever since. Erudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism. With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing. Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality. THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.
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