Greer looked at the mystery and shame surrounding knowledge of women’s bodies and the constrictions placed on their sexuality. Women, she argued, are conditioned under pressure from the “feminizers” to abandon their autonomy and embrace a stereotyped version of femininity. The result is helplessness, resentment, a lack of sexual pleasure, an absence of joy.

Mailer and the Second Wavers by Charlotte Allen. “The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form — was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics. From the beginning, it was a contest between the outsize personalities of Greer and Mailer over who was to own the evening. Greer, six […]

comment by Anita: “My mother and her feminist coven were reading St Greer, their interpretation: girls should be put on the pill at the point of menstruation, and immediately introduced to sex, whilst the mother instructed the boy how to provide the daughter a perfect orgasm.”

by Mona Charen. Much of the feminist project of the past half century, with its denial of sex differences and its insistence on stamping out sex roles, was misbegotten. Humans are not “assigned” sexes; we are male and female. Our differences are complementary, not superior or inferior. Decades of war between the sexes have led […]

by Andrea Dworkin But Greer has another side which allies itself with the worst of male chauvinism… In an interview in the Amerikan Screw, reprinted in Suck under the tide “Germaine: ‘I am a Whore, ’ ” she stated: Ideally, you’ve got to the stage where you really could ball everyone — the fat, the […]

by Germaine Greer. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student’s desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role. In fact the chief instrument in the deflection and perversion of female energy is the denial of female sexuality for the substitution of […]