Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch had an enormous impact. It’s still felt 50 years on

Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch had an enormous impact. It's still felt 50 years on

Source: ABC News

Five decades after its publication, Germaine Greer's transformational feminist blockbuster is still, despite flaws, relevant to women's lives.

When Kathy Lette was growing up in Sydney's southern suburbs in the 1970s, she says boys had two nicknames for women: bush pigs or maggots.
"If you were good-looking, they called you a glamour maggot," she tells ABC Radio National's The Books That Ch… [7371 chars]

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