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"The author, an Australian journalist, presents a life of the celebrated author of The Female Eunuch. Greer, whose activities ranged from a three-week marriage, numerous affairs and several illegal abortions, to acting at Cambridge with future Monty Pythons and eventual superstardom as a feminist spokesperson, is shown to be alternately brassy and timid; intimidating to men in general and clingy with the ones upon whom her affections fasten; obsessed with her absent father and extremely negative toward her mother. The book dwells mostly on her life in the 1950s and 1960s, and skimps on more recent decades and writings by Greer, but gives some sense of where this force of nature came from."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Political/social rights fight
Yes
Plotlet:
- women fighting for rights
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)
- Aussie
Gender/Class story?
- woman's story
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- British
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
City?
Yes
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- rape/molest (yeech!)
- impregnation/reproduction
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- actual description of hetero sex
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- decency
- capitalism
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A ton 16-20 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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