Changes

In the same year, she brought out what is possibly her best book, "Daddy, we hardly knew you" <ref>"Daddy, we hardly knew you" by Germaine Greer, Hamish Hamilton, 312 pp, £13.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 241 12538 3.</ref> In this book she describes her childhood, in which her mother who had Asperger's Syndrome was cold, rejecting and cruel while her father was almost entirely absent. He left to serve in [[World War II]] when she was aged four, and even when he returned he was a cold and vacant man, withdrawn, with many secrets. Greer tracked down her father and inadvertently revealed in the book that she was a person who had lacked, in her childhood, any model of a close or warm marital relationship between a mother and father. She came from a broken family. This leaves room to speculate that her disdain for marriage and love was derived from her own emotional limitation. What she called liberation and revolution may simply have been a personal inadequacy.

In the same year, she brought out what is possibly her best book, "Daddy, we hardly knew you" <ref>"Daddy, we hardly knew you" by Germaine Greer, Hamish Hamilton, 312 pp, £13.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 241 12538 3.</ref> In this book she describes her childhood, in which her mother who had Asperger's Syndrome was cold, rejecting and cruel while her father was almost entirely absent. He left to serve in [[World War II]] when she was aged four, and even when he returned he was a cold and vacant man, withdrawn, with many secrets. Greer tracked down her father and inadvertently revealed in the book that she was a person who had lacked, in her childhood, any model of a close or warm marital relationship between a mother and father. She came from a broken family. This leaves room to speculate that her disdain for marriage and love was derived from her own emotional limitation. What she called liberation and revolution may simply have been a personal inadequacy.

In 1995, Greer revealed that she had been raped at the age of nineteen when in Australia. Her attacker, who beat her and left her unconscious, was never identified. These personal experiences seem to have been extrapolated into her conviction that women in general were oppressed by men and had a huge collective grievance.

In 1995, Greer revealed that she had been raped at the age of nineteen when in Australia. Her attacker, who beat her and left her unconscious, was never identified. These personal experiences seem to have been extrapolated into her conviction that women in the late 20th-century Western world were still oppressed by men and had a huge collective grievance.

<ref>https://www.news.com.au/world/germaine-greer-tells-of-her-marriage-rape-and-attempts-to-become-pregnant-on-bbc-radio/news-story/77e1cd5ff44243364b157f3bd019cd87</ref>

<ref>https://www.news.com.au/world/germaine-greer-tells-of-her-marriage-rape-and-attempts-to-become-pregnant-on-bbc-radio/news-story/77e1cd5ff44243364b157f3bd019cd87</ref>