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• The glue is giving up on my 1971 copy of this seminal (so to speak) book - not that I read it that much these days, but what an eye-opener it was back then! So much we had taken for granted about how we were supposed to be and act. How little solidarity and sisterhood there really was out there in a world where every woman was after her alpha male to support her. Have things changed? Not as much as we hoped they would...but Germaine remains my heroine.

  5.00 out of 5

  rosielee

• Definitely a life-changing book when I read it in the 1970s. One I could hardly bear to pick up as a wife and mother in the 1980s. I wonder what I would think if I re-read it today?

  5.00 out of 5

  maz111

• Part of any worthwhile education. Should be taught in all schools.

  5.00 out of 5

  m.a.harding

• International bestseller and milestone in the re-thinking of the very basic facts which continue to hag-ride our behavior -- gender differences and similarities in the body, the soul, and what we love and hate. Greer chapters each of those topics, concluding with a call to revolution. With Notes. Greer presents a direct description of sexuality--not content with mere anatomy or indirection. Looking at how they are treated, she concludes that "men hate women", even though they do not realize it, and men end up hating themselves. No actual eunuchs were injured in the analysis, but Greer invokes literary and consumerist evidence that "Women have been separated from their libido", and cut off from their capacity for action: castrati, sacrificed for fattening docilities. My reading is that Greer is all about elevating humans to a greater capacity for love, compounded by the joy of really being together. I think this book changed the lives of people in the 1970's, and not just in the English-reading world.Curiously, the "supergroupie" demystifying academic author published a kind of sequel to this work, in 1999, entitled The Whole Woman.

  4.50 out of 5

  keylawk

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