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For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG--before Greer and after Greer. Its all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch . Thirty years later, Germaine Greer is ready to get angry again. In The Whole Woman , she analyzes, among oth For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG--before Greer and after Greer. Its all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch . Thirty years later, Germaine Greer is ready to get angry again. In The Whole Woman , she analyzes, among other issues, the invasive ways in which the health industry persuades women to have their bodies and reproductive systems managed. Greer lays out the facts about the high failure rate and devastating side effects of in vitro fertilization and the incongruence between the success of breast implants in achieving the perfect mammary to please men and the continuing failures in detecting and treating increasingly prevalent breast cancer. Greers polemic has the confident virtuosity of wit and maturity. Celebrating womens successes, The Whole Woman is a more positive book than The Female Eunuch . Her unique combination of outrageous humor and assertiveness continues to lead the way forward for women who want to take control of their lives. --Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk

For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG--before Greer and after Greer. Its all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch . Thirty years later, Germaine Greer is ready to get angry again. In The Whole Woman , she analyzes, among oth For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG--before Greer and after Greer. Its all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that...  Read More