In 1972, 5 women – Helen Garner, Claire Dobbin, Evelyn Krape, Yvonne Marini and Jude Kuring –spent 5 months workshopping a play. Frank, angry and explicit, it was a beacon of 1970s women’s liberation.
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Articles on Germaine Greer
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Long regarded as guardians of morality, women who swore were often policed and punished. But whether protesting or parodying, they have used bad language in creative ways.
First published in October 1970, The Female Eunuch has never been out of print.
Universities need to protect people with different ideas.
We need to know more about what is going on for women in sex – what makes them suffer and what gives them pleasure.
The republic of letters was an intellectual community that took shape in the Enlightenment. And just like writers’ festivals, it had rules about who could speak.
Germaine Greer’s recent comments about the punishments for rape show the need for more complex, evidence-based discussions about trauma and the criminal justice system.
The author and academic makes some valid points about rape, but to decriminalise it, as she suggests, fails to recognise bodily autonomy as a key marker of humanity to which women are entitled.
Germaine Greer’s recent comments on rape are troublingly glib.
Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail.
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The Germaine Greer Archive offers a powerful, often amusing, sometimes perplexing glimpse into the lives of people affected by her work, as well as the many faces of Greer herself.
The Town Hall Affair is a recreation of a 1971 debate between Germaine Greer and other feminists and Norman Mailer. It feels exceptionally prescient in 2018.
One of the least recognised aspects of Germaine Greer’s professional life is her international career as a journalist. It spans reportage in Vietnam and Ethiopia and interviews with figures such as Primo Levi.
From William Chidley to Germaine Greer Australia has spawned more than its fair share of radical thinkers about sex, and Australians have often embraced their ideas, despite persecution by officialdom.
Contemporary artists from Judy Chicago to Stelarc have made art from blood. And an exhibition at Melbourne’s new Science Gallery addresses our ambivalent attitudes to this life-giving fluid.
Fifty years of correspondence is stored at the Germaine Greer archive. It ranges across topics as diverse as US politics, grassroots feminism, gardening and Queen Victoria’s underpants.
The famous slogan of the 1970s that ‘women who want equality with men lack ambition’ still rings true today.
It’s time we retired this misogynistic stereotype.
The Greer archives brim with notebooks and papers from her time as a student of the traditional humanities. And reading The Female Eunuch for evidence of the Bard reveals a new kind of book, one that is deeply informed by this scholarship.
In the almost 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, his words have been enlisted by an extraordinary range of historical figures. Even the Nazis tried to claim him as a ‘Germanic’ writer.
Why it’s an exciting time to be a feminist.
Top contributors
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Law, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Media and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, MBA Director, University of Tasmania
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Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Sessional academic, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield
