The Whole Woman - Hardcover

Greer, Germaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375407472 ISBN 13: 9780375407475

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Book by Greer Germaine

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Argues that the Women's movement has been sidetracked from seeking true liberation by settling for an inferior form of equality

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after The Female Eunuch galvanized the women's liberation movement, Germaine Greer launches a fiery sequel assessing the state of womanhood and proclaiming that the time has come to get angry again.

With passionate rhetoric, unique authority, and outrageous humor, The Whole Woman reveals how women have been sideswiped and sidetracked in the quest for liberation, duped into settling for an ersatz equality. Greer argues that women have come a long way in the past three decades, but that innumerable forms of insidious discrimination and exploitation persist in every area of life--from the care of the body to the care of the household, from the workplace to the marketplace. She startles us with her demonstration that the oft-repeated claim that "women can have it all" is merely a pacifying illusion--that things are getting worse, and that action is necessary now.

The Whole Woman is a shattering critique of the complacency and den

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375407472
• ISBN 13: 9780375407475
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 373