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Author |
: Anthea Taylor |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2024-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351717557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351717553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive by : Anthea Taylor
Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive, the first scholarly book on this internationally renowned feminist, draws upon Greer’s largely unexplored archive to demonstrate her impact on readers and viewers since the 1970s. Across many decades in the limelight and through multiple media forms, the provocative Greer has worked to shape audience understandings of gender, sexuality, and feminism. Through deep engagement with archival material, Anthea Taylor offers a compelling reassessment of Greer’s celebrity feminist labour and its effects over time. Examining archived letters from fans, anti-fans, and those in between, this innovative volume shows how and why readers and viewers have come to affectively invest – or disinvest – in this iconoclastic feminist. Advancing debates about the social and political function of celebrity, Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive is essential reading for scholars in Gender Studies, History, Archival Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies.
Author |
: ANTHEA. TAYLOR |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138894699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138894693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive by : ANTHEA. TAYLOR
Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive focuses on one of the world's most famous feminists, using previously unexplored archival material to demonstrate the impact of Greer's celebrity feminism. It is an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology.
Author |
: Germaine Greer |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 541 |
Release |
: 2009-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061972805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061972800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Female Eunuch by : Germaine Greer
The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
Author |
: Elizabeth Kleinhenz |
Publisher |
: Random House Australia |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2018-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143782865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 014378286X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germaine by : Elizabeth Kleinhenz
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power, and, like her mother and millions of others across the world, changed her life. As one of the first researchers permitted to trawl through the Germaine Greer Archive housed at the University of Melbourne, Elizabeth found evidence of a brilliant teacher, serious scholar, flamboyantly attired hippie TV presenter, provocative magazine columnist and editor, real estate investor, domestic goddess, creator of extravagant gardens and preserves, shelterer of strays and waifs, libertarian, bohemian, anarchist, working journalist, correspondent, traveller and adventurer, international celebrity and performer, wag and ratbag, mentor and icon. Germaine Greer has said that her archive is a representation of the times in which she has lived. Yet she anticipated, catalysed and triumphantly rode the wave of the immense social and intellectual changes of her era. For Elizabeth, two things are certain: women’s lives today are very different from how they were when Germaine Greer and she left school; and much of the change that has occurred over the past half-century can be directly attributed to the lifetime of intense scholarship, unremitting hard work and influence of Germaine Greer.
Author |
: Maryanne Dever |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2020-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429809361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429809360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Germaine Greer by : Maryanne Dever
Germaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures of the second wave of the women’s movement. The Female Eunuch (1970) is one of second-wave feminism’s most widely recognised publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others have. Yet, while Greer’s public visibility never seems to wane, her writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer’s public rivalry with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of Melbourne, Australia. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
Author |
: Anthea Taylor |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2017-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137373342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137373342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster by : Anthea Taylor
In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction: feminist ‘blockbusters’. Celebrity and The Feminist Blockbuster explores how the authors of these popular feminist books have shaped the public identity of modern feminism, in some cases over many decades. Maintaining a distinction between women who are famous because of their feminism and those who later add feminism to their ‘brand’, Taylor contends that Western celebrity feminism, as a political mode of public subjectivity, cannot in any simple way be seen as homologous with other forms of stardom. Moving deftly from the 1960s to the present, focusing on how feminist authors have actively worked to manufacture their public personas, she demonstrates that the blockbuster remains crucial to feminist celebrification but is now often augmented with digital media. Advancing celebrity studies by placing the figure of the feminist front and centre, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster is essential reading for all those interested in gender, popular feminism, and the politics of renown.
Author |
: Germaine Greer |
Publisher |
: Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1994-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0871133083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780871133083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Madwoman's Underclothes by : Germaine Greer
Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter--be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial insemination, cosmetic surgery, the death of Jimi Hendrix, or the famine in Ethiopia. This collection represents a mosaic of essays, long and short, some of which are appearing for the first time in print and all of which chafe the conventional and are bristling with argument. From the youthful liveliness of her sixties pieces, which "got up everybody's nose," to the depth and complexity of her later work, The Madwoman's Underclothes is a reflection both of an era and of the changing ideas and styles of Germaine Greer: "The essays on Brazil, Cuba, and Ethiopia represent my coming of age. Something like a coherent system of values is beginning to emerge after my years of wandering, although I have certainly not arrived at a set of articles of faith, and never will, I hope." Greer's opinions on social, political, and sexual trends and mores are tendered in her unique fashion--outspoken, with rapier wit and no tolerance for narrow-mindedness. But as explosive, angry, and often funny as these essays are, they also reveal tenderness and sadness and that emotion that underlies all of Greer's work--passionate commitment.
Author |
: Germaine Greer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408846711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408846713 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Beech by : Germaine Greer
For years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers, salt earth, abandoned townships, whole beaches made of beer cans... One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. She didn't think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart's ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled Lantana canes there were Macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, and Black Beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches ... and the few remaining White Beeches, stupendous trees up to forty metres in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair. Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond doubt that at least here biodepletion could be reversed. Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, most exuberant of small planets.
Author |
: Anthea Taylor |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2020-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429772986 |
ISBN-13 |
: 042977298X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture by : Anthea Taylor
This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.
Author |
: Germaine Greer |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 581 |
Release |
: 2018-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632869203 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1632869209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Change by : Germaine Greer
An updated edition of Germaine Greer's revolutionary discussion of menopause, which the New York Times Book Review called "a brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, bruising, exasperating fury of a book." A quarter of a century after the first publication of Germaine Greer's now canonical look at women's experience later in life, the renowned feminist and prolific author updates and expands her essential book, The Change. Despite improvements over the last few years, discussions about menopause are still hampered by a huge variance in conventional wisdom about what happens, when it happens, when it can be said to be over, and how to deal with it. After decades, the same misinformation and ineffective methods are still being widely touted and proliferating at an alarming rate due to the rise of the Internet. In this updated edition of her groundbreaking book, Greer debunks stubborn myths and presents a vital new perspective on the emotional and physical changes--including up-to-date medical details--women face today when they go through what's known as "the change." Greer also addresses cultural changes that surround female aging today, launching a clear and necessary protest against the notion that women should shrink into the background as they grow older. She argues that menopause marks the point in a woman's life when she should be able to stop apologizing and bask in the freedom and joy that come with her later years. Witty, wise, and timely, this new edition of The Change offers a crucial twenty-first-century guide to the change that every woman faces.