Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer was born on 29 January 1939 in Melbourne and grew up in the bayside suburbs. A convent pupil, she studied at the University of Melbourne, then at Sydney, and in 1963 left for Cambridge, where she obtained her doctorate. She taught at the University of Warwick from 1967 to 1972, then at that of Tulsa, where in 1979 she founded a centre for the study of women's literature, before returning to Warwick in 1998. She went on to publish on women painters, fertility, the menopause and women poets, and her stands have never ceased to arouse controversy.

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• EssayThe Female EunuchGermaine Greer · 1970Literature