Nov 17 2015
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In 1976, The Female Eunuch author Germaine Greer commenced an affair with novelist Martin Amis, at the time a…
Oct 25 2015
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Germaine Greer, the second-wave feminist best known for her 1970 book The Female Eunuch, accused Caitlyn Jenner of…
Mar 14 2013
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I was going to ask you how often you, as a woman, feel guilty. But I don't have to, because studies have shown that…
May 17 2012
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Trigger warning, guys: there's a new blog in town to remind you how everything you're doing is not feminist enough.…
Apr 21 2011
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"In 1976, I wondered why TIME didn't have a triumphant Patti Smith on its cover," writes Michael Stipe. He also…
Nov 1 2010
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Stephen Fry has caused an outcry by claiming that women don't really like sex. And feminists, unfortunately, have…
Apr 12 2010
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Want to hear feminist Germaine Greer kiss-and-tell about her romp with the Italian director? No? Too bad, she's…
Mar 22 2010
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Abortion and birth control have both been (often unjustly, occasionally justly) linked to the eugenics movement. Now…
Nov 10 2009
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The authors certainly think so, and after reading them, it's hard to disagree - albeit for totally different reasons.
Mar 2 2009
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If there's one thing we're sick of, it's this debate. And this freaky picture.
Dec 12 2008
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As you may know, the Life magazine photo archive is now online, and we've been showcasing images of women in…
Dec 8 2008
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The Guardian's Sunday magazine, the Observer, devoted almost every article this past weekend to the state of…
Nov 21 2008
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Germaine Greer is at it again, body-snarking like it's her job to decide what is or is not attractive about women. This time, British pin-ups Katie Price and Cheryl Cole are in her sights. Greer proclaims both women too thin to be attractive saying, "A healthy girl is a fat-bottomed creature." [The Telegraph]
Nov 17 2008
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I am not a fashion critic because my fashion sense is pretty well limited to "Ooh, pretty!", or "Ooh, shiny!" or…
Aug 26 2008
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In yesterday's Guardian, Madonna-hater Germaine Greer presented us with the concept of "the power pearl" as sported…
Aug 15 2008
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Madonna is not necessarily a favorite of famous feminists. Both Camille Paglia and Germaine Greer have weighed in on the singer's half-century mark this week: Paglia rags on the Material Girl for her looks ("hard-bitten face lolling its tongue like a dissolute old streetwalker") and Greer for her clothes and her…
May 19 2008
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"I think he was a genius and geniuses are tricky to live with…But I think a man who hates his wife and doesn't dare leave her is all kind of a creep." That's Germaine Greer in a podcast on her (by most accounts successful) quest to prove the conventional wisdom that if Shakespeare really was Shakespeare his wife was a…
Apr 30 2008
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Media folks continue to weigh in on the semi-racy photographs of Miley Cyrus, and while they make different, though…