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Germaine Greer

Auteur van De vrouw als eunuch

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Germaine Greer is an author and noted Feminist. She is the author of The Female Eunuch, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You, The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause, The Beautiful Boy, Shakespeare's Wife and White Beech: The Rainforest Years, among others (Bowker Author Biography)
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Werken van Germaine Greer

De vrouw als eunuch (1970) 2,291 exemplaren
De hele vrouw (1999) 590 exemplaren
De vrouw van Shakespeare (2007) 589 exemplaren
De jongen (2003) 177 exemplaren
Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of 17th-Century Women's Verse (1988) — Redacteur — 102 exemplaren
White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013) 58 exemplaren
101 Poems by Women (2001) 46 exemplaren
Poems for Gardeners (2003) 29 exemplaren
On Rage (1787) 27 exemplaren
On Rape (2018) 27 exemplaren
The Greek Myths: The Power of Love (2008) — Voorwoord — 11 exemplaren
Lysistrata (Aurora Metro Press) (2000) 9 exemplaren
Revolting Garden (1979) 5 exemplaren
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2000) 4 exemplaren
Shakespeare essay (1988) 1 exemplaar
Vidrohi Stri 1 exemplaar

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Thought provoking and appears to hit the nail on the head, why aboriginal society is failing.
 
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SteveMcI | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 5, 2024 |
I think Greer had a lot of fun writing this book - and I had a lot of fun reading it.
I was attracted to the book by a quote from a reviewer who said something along the lines of - Greer has been as unprovocative as she could be, but the old men of academia still reacted with outrage and venom.
Well, if there were to be sides - I'd be on Greer's team.
The study of Shakespeare's life and times suffers from the lack of documentary evidence. Too many academics backfill the gap with commentary inmformed by later lives and times. Greer goes back to the basics, and gives the reader a great picture of what life was like in Stratford, and for women in particular. Life was different, but the reader comes away with a sense of what life may have been likely for Ann Hathaway.
The other interesting aspect of the book, for me, was the picture of the aging Shakespeare who retired back to Avon as a man of some wealth. There's a hint here of some sort of serious decline in abilities - dementia? It's only an aside in this book, but I would love to see if others have considered the issue. Just because he was a genius at his prime doesn't mean he waasn't mortally fragile as he aged.
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mbmackay | 18 andere besprekingen | Oct 18, 2023 |
I enjoyed this book. It's a very easy read, both because the text is quite short and because Greer's prose is clear and well-structured. The illustrations are almost all beautiful pieces of art in their own right, and so worthy of taking the time to look at.

I found the ideas most compelling when they related specifically to art history and cultural studies. When Greer veered into anthropology or history, I had much less confidence in the points she was making. I don't know much about the content, but even I picked up a couple of errors and a couple of tendentious interpretations of artworks that made me wonder what other misrepresentations or mistakes I was missing. As a result, this is a book that stimulated thought for me but certainly wouldn't change my mind, except in the broadest terms.

The main point, in my view, is that boys are beautiful and that as a society we lose something by failing to enjoy that fact. This raises interesting questions about the the lines between beauty and attractiveness, and about the relationships between different kinds of attractiveness. A puppy can be attractive, in the sense of "pleasing or appealing to the senses", but there is no thought of sexual desire. A person can also be attractive without arousing sexual desire (for instance a gay man might find a woman attractive but not wish to have sex with her), but then they may also arouse sexual desire. Where does that leave us with boys, who at their youngest are not sexually attractive but at their oldest may be reasonably be sexually attractive to some? For instance, in an interview after the book was published, the fifteen year old boy pictured on the cover of this book expressed his discomfort at being ogled by adult men when the photo was taken (in the 70s, while he was acting in the film of [b:Death in Venice|53061|Death in Venice|Thomas Mann|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1627232919l/53061._SY75_.jpg|17413130]), but if the attention had come from fourteen year old girls he may have felt differently.

Of course the gender of the gaze matters, and rather than getting bogged down in the complexities of men and power, Greer's default position is that of the female gaze. This makes the discussion clearer, cleaner and lighter but it also means that Greer skirts the ethical issues of attractiveness rather than delving into them. As a consequence, this book is an entertaining, though-provoking piece of popular cultural studies, rather than a serious inquiry into aesthetics or representation in art.
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robfwalter | 6 andere besprekingen | Jul 31, 2023 |
I was very young when I read this work by [Germaine Greer] and it didn’t so much enlighten me, but affirmed a number of my understandings on how women were viewed in the 20th century West. A must for the boomer generation women starting their journey.
 
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Werken
29
Ook door
25
Leden
5,674
Populariteit
#4,361
Waardering
½ 4.4
Besprekingen
68
ISBNs
221
Talen
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Favoriet
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