Pubblicato nel 1970, "L'eunuco femmina" suscitò all'epoca plauso e polemiche, dividendo il pubblico internazionale. Un lucido, feroce e irriverente pamphlet diventato una pietra miliare del femminismo angloamericano e che mantiene ancora oggi la forza delle sue argomentazioni: la lotta per la parità di genere, il controllo del corpo delle donne e il riconoscimento della loro autonomia sono questioni che permangono nel dibattito attuale. A partire dal corpo, Greer esamina le differenze biologiche intrinseche, inalterabili, tra uomini e donne, e i modi in cui il condizionamento sociale ha scavato profonde differenze psicologiche. Il sesso delle donne, afferma l'autrice, è stato a lungo incatenato nello stereotipo maschile di passività, riducendo le donne a esseri senza carattere o identità propria, come un eunuco senza volto, un essere sessualmente e mentalmente castrato. Attraverso una varietà di fonti che attingono alla storia, alla letteratura, alla biologia e alla cultura popolare, l'analisi penetrante dell'oppressione femminile di Greer è un commento sociale appassionato e articolato che rappresenta un importante documento storico su dove siamo stati, e un trattato di sorprendente rilevanza su ciò che deve ancora essere realizzato.

One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in southeast Queensland, Australia, which, after a century of logging, clearing, and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate.

She didn’t think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart’s ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled lantana canes, there were macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, black beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches . . . and the few remaining white beeches, stupendous trees up to 120 feet in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair.

Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond a doubt that at least here, biodepletion could be reversed.

Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, the most exuberant of small planets.

Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this analysis investigates the causes of rage and its consequences in Aboriginal men. Released six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians, this is an urgent and provocative examination of disempowerment. With acuity and passion, this essay not only contemplates rage but also its corollary, grief.

The complete sonnets — now available for the first time in Vintage Classics.

Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breathtaking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — others, unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary meditation on the nature of love, lust, beauty and time.

Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, reclaiming this much maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny. With deep insight and intelligence, she offers daring and thoughtful new theories about the farmer's daughter who married Britain's immortal Bard, painting a vivid portrait of a truly remarkable woman.

The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.

Little is known of Shakespeare's life, yet scholars persist to believe that his wife hated and resented him. Here, Greer puts the marriage into its social context and hypothesises on the life of Ann Hathaway, opening up new fields of investigat

A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. Germaine Greer argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world.

Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write.

"A marvelous performance--. No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy; none makes [us] laugh the way she does."--The Washington Post

In this thoroughly engaging new book, the fervent, rollicking, straight-shooting Greer, is, as ever, "the ultimate agent provocateur" (Mirabella).  With passionate rhetoric, outrageous humor, and the authority of a lifetime of thought and observation, she trains a sharp eye on the issues women face at the turn of the century.

From the workplace to the kitchen, from the supermarket to the bedroom, Greer exposes the innumerable forms of insidious discrimination and exploitation that continue to plague women around the globe.  She mordantly attacks "lifestyle feminists" who blithely believe they can have it all, and argues for a fuller, more organic idea of womanhood.  Whether it's liposuction or abortion, Barbie or Lady Diana, housework or sex work, Greer always has an opinion, and as one of the most brilliant, glamorous, and dynamic feminists of all time, her opinions matter.  For anyone interested in the future of womanhood, The Whole Woman is a must-read.

"A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts. She has gone back into history, read textbooks, explored novels and poems, and has written a wholly extraordinary account of women and their changes in life.

The author offers an account of her probe into the secrets of her father's past, an intensely emotional journey that carried her around the world, into the memories of those who had known Reg Greer