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'''Germaine Greer,'''(born 1939), prominent Australian [[feminist]] and academic writer, one of the most influential names in 20th-century "second-wave" feminism.

'''Germaine Greer,'''(born 1939), prominent Australian [[feminist]] and academic writer, one of the most influential names in 20th-century "second-wave" feminism.

Greer was born in Melbourne, [[Australia]] Victoria, and went to a convent school, Star of the Sea Convent, Gardenvale. After getting a BA at Melbourne University in 1959 and a Masters degree with first class honors at Sydney University in 1962, she won a Commonwealth Scholar to Newnham College, [[Cambridge University]], England, where she obtained a Ph.D in in 1967 writing her thesis on Shakespeare's early comedies. Between 1967 and 1972 she lectured in English literature at the University of Warwick.

Greer was born in Melbourne, [[Australia]], and went to a convent school, Star of the Sea Convent, Gardenvale. After getting a BA at Melbourne University in 1959 and a Masters degree with first class honors at Sydney University in 1962, she won a Commonwealth Scholar to Newnham College, [[Cambridge University]], England, where she obtained a Ph.D in in 1967 writing her thesis on Shakespeare's early comedies. Between 1967 and 1972 she lectured in English literature at the University of Warwick.

In 1970 she published ''The Female Eunuch'' which attracted attention because Greer was mainly concerned with sexuality and defined "liberation" as promiscuity and the abolition of marriage and relationships. Drawing many of her ideas from the already prevalent wave of permissiveness in London and the USA, she enthusiastically advocated a life of casual sexual encounters and dismissed marriage as "slavery". She wrote scornfully or romance. Some of Greer's pronouncements were jaw-dropping, asserting for instance that "Children don't need to be brought up. They grow up anyway". She thought housework could be abolished by people living in a commune where the chores were done by a "local family" i.e. someone else, conveniently happy to play a servant role. The book ended with a euphoric vision of women smoking marijuana and "demanding abortions".  

In 1970 she published ''The Female Eunuch'' which attracted attention because Greer was mainly concerned with sexuality and defined "liberation" as promiscuity and the abolition of marriage and relationships. Drawing many of her ideas from the already prevalent wave of permissiveness in London and the USA, she enthusiastically advocated a life of casual sexual encounters and dismissed marriage as "slavery". She wrote scornfully or romance. Some of Greer's pronouncements were jaw-dropping, asserting for instance that "Children don't need to be brought up. They grow up anyway". She thought housework could be abolished if people lived in communes where the chores were done by a "local family" i.e. someone else, conveniently happy to play a servant role. The book ended with a euphoric vision of women smoking marijuana and "demanding abortions".  

The book had little in common with the grass roots movement in the UK at the time, which was more concerned with issues such as obtaining equal pay for women working at the Ford factory in Dagenham. [[London]].<ref> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/made-in-dagenham-a-1968-strike-led-to-equal-pay-for-women-2077177.html</ref>  

The book had little in common with the grass roots movement in the UK at the time, which was more concerned with issues such as obtaining equal pay for women working at the Ford factory in Dagenham. [[London]].<ref> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/made-in-dagenham-a-1968-strike-led-to-equal-pay-for-women-2077177.html</ref>