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Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women’s literature, she has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. Greer’s subsequent work has focused on literature, feminism and the environment. Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and “agreeing to live the lives of unfree men”.
The skyline of the Melbourne city centre is visible in the distance. Greer was born in Melbourne to a Catholic family, the elder of two girls followed by a boy. Greer, told her he had been born in South Africa, but she learned after his death that he was born Robert Hamilton King in Launceston, Tasmania. The family lived in the Melbourne suburb of Elwood, at first in a rented flat in Docker Street, near the beach, then in another rented flat on the Esplanade.
Just before she graduated from Melbourne in 1959 with an upper second, she moved to Sydney, where she became involved with the Sydney Push and the anarchist Sydney Libertarians. When the relationship with Smilde ended, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney to study Byron, where, Clive James wrote, she became “famous for her brilliantly foul tongue”. The MA won Greer a Commonwealth Scholarship, with which she funded further studies at the University of Cambridge, arriving in October 1964 at Newnham College, a women-only college. Cambridge was a difficult environment for women.
As Christine Wallace notes, one Newnham student described her husband receiving a dinner invitation in 1966 from Christ’s College that allowed “Wives in for sherry only”. At the graduates’ table, Germaine was explaining with passion that there could be no liberation for women, no matter how highly educated, as long as we were required to cram our breasts into bras constructed like mini-Vesuviuses, two stitched, white, cantilevered cones which bore no resemblance to the female anatomy. Footlights, in its club room in Falcon Yard above a Mac Fisheries shop. Greer lived for a time in the room next to Clive James at Friar House on Bene’t Street, opposite The Eagle.
Drawing on her incongruous but irrepressible skills as a housewife, she had tatted lengths of batik, draped bolts of brocade, swathed silk, swagged satin, niched, ruffed, hemmed and hawed. There were oriental carpets and occidental screens, ornamental plants and incidental music. Romaine, however, once she had got her life of luxury up and running, did not luxuriate. She had a typewriter the size of a printing press. Greer finished her PhD in Calabria, Italy, where she stayed for three months in a village with no running water and no electricity. The trip had begun as a visit with a boyfriend, Emilio, but he ended the relationship so Greer had changed her plans. Rising before dawn, she would wash herself at a well, drink black coffee and start typing.
The Female Eunuch relies extensively on Greer’s Shakespearean scholarship, particularly when discussing the history of marriage and courtship. From 1968 to 1972, Greer worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Warwick in Coventry, living at first in a rented bedsit in Leamington Spa with two cats and 300 tadpoles. The relationship lasted only a few weeks. Apparently unfaithful to du Feu seven times in three weeks of marriage, Greer wrote that she had spent their wedding night in an armchair, because her husband, drunk, would not allow her in bed. In addition to teaching, Greer was trying to make a name for herself in television. Greer began writing columns as “Dr.
G” for Oz magazine, owned by Richard Neville, whom she had met at a party in Sydney. Needlework Correspondent on the hand-knitted Keep it Warm Cock Sock, “a snug corner for a chilly prick”. As “Rose Blight”, she also wrote a gardening column for Private Eye. According to Beatrice Faust, Suck published “high misogynist SM content”, including a cover illustration, for issue 7, of a man holding a “screaming woman with her legs in the air while another rapes her anally”. There’s a big cleft between sexual liberation and women’s liberation.
My sisters get mad at me when I say gay liberation is part of our whole movement, and we’ve got to combine them. They want me to wear pants and be unavailable, and carry a jimmy to bash people over the head with if they feel my ass in the street. Greer parted company with Suck in 1972 when it published a naked photograph of her lying down with her legs over her shoulders and her face peering between her thighs. When she began writing for Oz and Suck, Greer was spending three days a week in her flat in Leamington Spa while she taught at Warwick, two days in Manchester filming, and two days in London in a white-washed bedsit in The Pheasantry on King’s Road. She was also writing The Female Eunuch.
Explaining why she wanted to write the book, the synopsis continued: “Firstly I suppose it is to expiate my guilt at being an uncle Tom to my sex. I probably share in all the effortless and unconscious contempt that men pour on women. Christine Wallace called Paladin’s cover, designed by John Holmes, one of the most “instantly recognizable images in post-war publishing”. Kee on 12 October 1970, dedicated to Lillian Roxon and four other women.