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<p>new</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Germaine Greer&#039;&#039;&#039; (1939- ) is an Australian [[feminism|feminist]] writer and broadcaster.<br /> <br /> == Career ==<br /> <br /> Greer was born in Melbourne, [[Australia]] in 1939, growing up in the bayside suburb of Mentone. After attending a convent, Star of the Sea College, in Gardenvale, Melbourne, she won a teaching scholarship in 1956 and enrolled at the University of Melbourne. After graduation she moved to Sydney, where she became involved with the Sydney Push, a group of intellectual left-wing anarchists who practised non-monogamy. She later gained an M.A. in 1963 for a thesis on [[George Byron|Byron]]. She received her Ph.D. in 1968 at the University of Cambridge for a thesis on [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]&#039;s early comedies, and accepted a lectureship in English at the University of Warwick. In 1979 she accepted a post at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma as the director for the Center of the Study of Women&#039;s Literature. She is recently retired as professor of English literature at the University of Warwick in England.<br /> <br /> Greer is author of several highly acclaimed books, including her ground-breaking &#039;&#039;The Female Eunuch&#039;&#039; (1970) which became an international bestseller. Her other books include &#039;&#039;The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work&#039;&#039; (1979), &#039;&#039;Shakespeare&#039;&#039; (1986), &#039;&#039;Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility&#039;&#039; (1984), &#039;&#039;The Madwoman&#039;s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings&#039;&#039; (1985) and &#039;&#039;Daddy, We Hardly Knew You&#039;&#039; (1989).<br /> <br /> == The Boy ==<br /> <br /> In 2003, she published &#039;&#039;The Boy&#039;&#039; (published as &#039;&#039;The Beautiful Boy&#039;&#039; in the [[United States]]), an art history book about the beauty of teenage boys, richly illustrated with 200 [[photography|photographs]] of what &#039;&#039;The Guardian&#039;&#039; called &quot;succulent teenage male beauty&quot;, alleging that Greer had reinvented herself as a &quot;middle-aged [[pederasty|pederast]].&quot; [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1057077,00.html] Greer described the book as an attempt to address women&#039;s apparent indifference to the teenage boy as a sexual object and to &quot;advance women&#039;s reclamation of their capacity for, and right to, visual pleasure&quot; (Greer 2003).<br /> <br /> == Reference ==<br /> <br /> Germaine Greer, &#039;&#039;The Boy&#039;&#039; (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003)<br /> <br /> [[Category:People]]</div>

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