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A Short Biography of Germaine Greer

Author Name:

Germaine Greer

Born As:

Germaine Greer

Other Names:

Germaine Greer

Born:

29 Jan 1939

Died:





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Writer, academic, journalist, environmentalist and scholar of early modern English literature                          
Selected Works:

The Female Eunich - 1970
Translated Aristophanes's Lysistrata - 1972
The Obstacle Race, the Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work  - 1979
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility - 1984
Shakespeare - 1986
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You - 1989
The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause - 1991
The Whole Woman - 1999
Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet  - 1995
The Beautiful Boy - 2003
Shakespeare's Wife - 2007 - a biography of Anne Hathaway
Little Books on Big Themes - Essay - On Rage - 2008

The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings -  a collection of newspaper and magazine articles written between 1968 and 1985.

                          
Married Paul du Feu in 1968 - it lasted three weeks.                          
Regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.

University of Melbourne - B.A.
University of Sydney - M.A.
University of Cambridge - Ph.D.

Founding editor of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, an academic journal, during 1981–82.                          
After the publishing of The Female Eunich, Germaine spent the next few years travelling through Africa and Asia, which included a visit to Bangladesh to investigate the situation of women who had been raped during the conflict with Pakistan. On the New Zealand leg of her tour in 1972, Greer was arrested for using the words "bullshit" and "fuck" during her speech, which attracted major rallies in her support.