the best of masculinity and femininity.”  — New York TimesA ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling study of women’s oppression that is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic—and a feminist classic When Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch was first published in 1970, it created a shock wave of recognition in women around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller—translated into more than 12 languages—and a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women’s liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer’s searing examination of women’s oppression is a passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.

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