Greer, Germaine

Autor: Greer, Germaine
Rok: 1939-
Oblast působnosti: spisovatelky, feministky, vysokoškolské učitelky

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Australská spisovatelka, novinářka a feministka, vysokoškolská pedagožka, zaměřená na anglickou literaturu.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Germaine Greer (/ɡrɪər/; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian academic and writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge.Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970), became an international best-seller, bringing her both adulation and opposition. She is the author of several books about women, feminism, literature, art and the environment, including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), The Whole Woman (1999), Shakespeare's Wife (2007) and White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013).Greer is a liberation rather than equality feminist. Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and settling to live the lives of "unfree men." "Women's liberation," she wrote in The Whole Woman (1999), "did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual." She argues that women's liberation means embracing sex differences in a positive fashion – a struggle for the freedom of women to "define their own values, order their own priorities and decide their own fate."