トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「“What #GermaineGreer saw” Greer was and is far from perfect—but the Female Eunuch, published fifty years ago, will forever remain part of the canon, by #HadleyFreeman / October 7, 2020 / . #TheFemaleEunuch was published in 1970, five years before the Sex Discrimination Act was passed in parliament, and six years before the Domestic Violence Act. Back in 1970, married women didn’t do their own tax returns because their income was seen as belonging to their husband; health clinics demanded that a married woman obtain permission from her husband before fitting her with a coil; single women struggled to get mortgages; and if your husband raped you he would not be prosecuted because, according to the law, by marrying him you consented to have sex with him, whenever, wherever and however he so pleased. This was the world that this book—and its Australian author, Germaine Greer—burst into like an electrifyingly disruptive shooting star, and the effects of both the book and the writer are still being felt today. Books had certainly been written about feminism before—from Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 to Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in 1964. But The Female Eunuch arrived among them like an intimidatingly cool new kid at school—by lunchtime everyone is copying her mannerisms, so overawed they don’t know whether they love her or loathe her. It is hard to imagine a feminist book written today that isn’t in some way influenced by The Female Eunuch, even if the author professes to detest Greer. Let’s not make any bones about this: Greer did not come here to be liked. “Hopefully this book is subversive. Hopefully it will draw fire from all the articulate sections of the community,” she writes at the beginning of The Female Eunuch. Her hopes were fulfilled: the book was subversive, and it did draw fire—and so does she to this day. Greer is the most famous, most instantly recognisable feminist in the world, and her renown is not something that has ever seemed to cause her much unhappiness. You don’t agree to go on Big Brother, and then storm out calling it a “fascist prison,” if you abhor attention.」10月16日 22時17分