Feminism and Fertility
Germaine Greer
Monday, 03 Nov 1975 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Germaine Greer is a writer and public intellectual who is regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She has held a number of academic positions, specializing in English literature, and is author of The Female Eunuch published in 1970. In it she argues that the suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses and devitalizes women, the book became an international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement.Women's Week
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