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In 1979 Greer became a professor in the Graduate Faculty of Modern Letters at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, and she later became director of that university's Center for the Study of Women's Literature, positions she relinquished to return to full-time writing and broadcasting. <ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/germaine-greer</ref>
In 1979 Greer became a professor in the Graduate Faculty of Modern Letters at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, and she later became director of that university's Center for the Study of Women's Literature, positions she relinquished to return to full-time writing and broadcasting. <ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/germaine-greer</ref>
''The Obstacle Race,'' her second book, published in 1979, examined the work of several distinguished women painters of the past, in the light of the difficulties they had faced working in a man's profession. Though the topic is a very worthy one, and the book coincided with the arrival of Women's Studies as an academic subject, is was hampered by the fact that Greer was not an art historian by academic training.
''The Obstacle Race,'' her second book, published in 1979, examined the work of several distinguished women painters of the past, in the light of the difficulties they had faced working in a man's profession. Though the topic is a very worthy one, and the book coincided with the arrival of Women's Studies as an academic subject, it was hampered by the fact that Greer was not an art historian by academic training.
Greer's third book ''Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility'' (1984), bewildered readers by appearing to go back on everything she had said in ''The Female Eunuch.'' Whereas she had denounced the Western "nuclear family" as oppressive, she now decided to idealize and defend the Asiatic extended family, in which women are sent into early, arranged marriages, are expected to do all the housework, and have up to fifteen children, while facing disgrace and shame if they are divorced. She herself had never lived in an extended family (unless we count her affair with the married author Martin Amis) <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/17/revealed-germaine-greers-30000-word-love-letter-to-martin-amis-a-lover-who-left-her-helpless-with-desire</ref>, but she decided that they were underrated. Having touted for a permissive lifestyle premised on the availability of contraception and abortion for relatively rich women, she now deplored government programs offering birth control to populations so poor that most of their children were dying of starvation. She offered some surprising arguments for artificial birth control being unnecessary (even suggesting some alternatives rather too indecent to mention here). The same author who had belittled tradition in the West now argued that we must not destroy traditional cultures and ways of life. In the intervals of idealizing Third World poverty and deploring Western materialism, she could always go back to spend a few months at her villa in Tuscany.
Greer's third book ''Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility'' (1984), bewildered readers by appearing to go back on everything she had said in ''The Female Eunuch.'' Whereas she had denounced the Western "nuclear family" as oppressive, she now decided to idealize and defend the Asiatic extended family, in which women are sent into early, arranged marriages, are expected to do all the housework, and have up to fifteen children, while facing disgrace and shame if they are divorced. She herself had never lived in an extended family (unless we count her affair with the married author Martin Amis) <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/17/revealed-germaine-greers-30000-word-love-letter-to-martin-amis-a-lover-who-left-her-helpless-with-desire</ref>, but she decided that they were underrated. Having touted for a permissive lifestyle premised on the availability of contraception and abortion for relatively rich women, she now deplored government programs offering birth control to populations so poor that most of their children were dying of starvation. She offered some surprising arguments for artificial birth control being unnecessary (even suggesting some alternatives rather too indecent to mention here). The same author who had belittled tradition in the West now argued that we must not destroy traditional cultures and ways of life. In the intervals of idealizing Third World poverty and deploring Western materialism, she could always go back to spend a few months at her villa in Tuscany.
In 1989 Greer became a special lecturer and unofficial fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University.
In 1989 Greer became a special lecturer and unofficial fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University.
==Autobiographical Writing==
==Autobiographical Writing==