Introduction http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/greer-germaine/female-eunuch.htm
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Quotes from book
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970. It received a mixed reception, but by March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second printing. It has been translated into eleven languages.A sequel to The Female Eunuch, entitled The Whole Woman, was published in 1999.
The Wicked Womb (p. 57)
The Female Eunuch (1970)
“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”
Source: The Female Eunuch
“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
p. 263 http://books.google.com/books?ei=7hdeUeCtEOGmiQLnu4HYBg&id=x88du4E7ARAC&dq=%22The+Female+Eunuch%22+1971&q=%22hate+them%22#search_anchor
Often paraphrased as: "women have no idea how much men hate them."
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Womanpower (p. 128)
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The Psychological Sell
The Female Eunuch (1970)
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
Love: Egotism (p. 155) http://books.google.com/books?id=mhi0AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour%22+%22woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&pg=PA155 http://books.google.com/books?id=dtnbrx0pOI4C&q=%22Man+is+jealous+because+of+his+amour+propre+woman+is+jealous+because+of+her+lack+of+it%22&pg=PT170#v=onepage
The Female Eunuch (1970)
“Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him…”
The Stereotype (p. 67)
The Female Eunuch (1970)
“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”
The Psychological Sell (p. 104)
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The Raw Material
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Revolution
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The Stereotype
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Security (p. 274)
The Female Eunuch (1970)
“The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle.”
Introduction
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Context: With them she can discover cooperation, sympathy and love. The end cannot justify the means: if she finds that her revolutionary way leads only to further discipline and continuing incomprehension, with their corollaries of bitterness and diminution, no matter how glittering the objective which would justify it, she must understand that it is a wrong way and an illusory end. The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity which is the reflowering of etiolated energy. Only these can sustain her and keep the flow of energy coming. The problems are only equalled by the possibilities: every mistake made is redeemed when it is understood. The only ways in which she can feel such joy are radical ones: the more derided and maligned the action that she undertakes, the more radical.
