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by Germaine Greer

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Here is what The Los Angeles Times Book Review says about The Madwoman's Underclothes: "Brilliant, witty, entertaining, incisive, always informed, the essays cover the diverse topics that are the history of the women's movement and our contemporary world. Greer's range is enormous".

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Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter--be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial insemination, cosmetic surgery, the death of Jimi Hendrix, or the famine in Ethiopia. This collection represents a mosaic of essays, long and short, some of which are appearing for the first time in print and all of which chafe the conventional and are bristling with argument.

From the youthful liveliness of her sixties pieces, which "got up everybody's nose," to the depth and complexity of her later work, The Madwoman's Underclothes is a reflection both of an era and of the changing ideas and styles of Germaine Greer: "The essays on Brazil, Cuba, and Ethiopia represent my coming of age. Something like a coherent system of values is beginning to emerge after my years of wandering, although I have certainly not arrived at a set of articles of faith, and never will, I hope."

Greer's opinions on social, political, and sexual trends and mores are tendered in her unique fashion--outspoken, with rapier wit and no tolerance for narrow-mindedness. But as explosive, angry, and often funny as these essays are, they also reveal tenderness and sadness and that emotion that underlies all of Greer's work--passionate commitment.

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Legalize Pot rallies are so beautiful; hundreds of doe-eyed painted people stirring slowly under the soft sky, bound together by their sense of gently daring in a common cause, holding smoking incense sticks like they were precious aphrodisiacs or opium pipes at least.

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  • Title The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
  • Author Germaine Greer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, NY
  • Publication date 1994-01-10
  • ISBN 9780871133083 / 0871133083
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.02 x 0.93 in (22.81 x 15.29 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminists, Feminism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87011475
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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