Germaine Greer est une écrivaine, journaliste et universitaire d'origine australienne, spécialisée dans la littérature anglaise de la première période moderne, largement reconnue comme une voix féministe essentielle de la fin du XXe siècle. Ses idées ont suscité la controverse depuis que son œuvre révolutionnaire est devenue un best-seller international, la propulsant à la célébrité du jour au lendemain et attirant à la fois l'admiration et la critique. Greer se consacre dans son travail à l'examen et à la déconstruction des normes de genre et des attentes sociales, en utilisant un style souvent provocateur et stimulant la réflexion. Son importance littéraire réside dans son défi inébranlable aux structures patriarcales et dans sa défense de l'autonomie et de la libération des femmes.
Period Ancient Greek Athens is in the grip of a futile, destructive war with Sparta and its men are fighting abroad, taken away from their wives and families for long periods at a time. The women of Athens have had enough.
»Im Büchlein HECKENGEFLÜSTER erwartet Sie Bösartiges aus dem geplagten Leben einer Londoner Gärtnerin in einer hübschen Verpackung in witziger Form zu Papier gebracht. Übles gibt's da einiges, wie beispielsweise Kinder, die Rosen zerhacken oder Bauarbeiter, die Abfall durch die Äste der Linden schmeißen. Auch Nachbarn, Hunde, Passanten und Touristen zählen zu den Plagen einer Gärtnerin in der englischen Hauptstadt und kriegen ihr Fett ab. Doch nicht nur daheim, auch in fremden Gärten stößt die Autorin auf unliebsame Überraschungen...« sofagaertnerin. blogspot. com
Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.
This publication documents the exhibition Stella Paintings, the first major solo show in the UK by the enfant terrible of British art. Stella Vine's paintings are exuberant, funny and irreverent. She is notorious for her portraits of Kate Moss and disturbing images of Princess Diana and the heroin victim Rachel Whitear, but she also paints her mother and her son from photographs and memory. Born in 1969 in Northumberland, Stella Vine studied painting part-time at Hampstead School of Art in 1999. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, notably New Blood at the Saatchi Gallery in 2004 when she first came to public attention. Stella Vine currently lives and works in London. This fully illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition Stella Paintings held at Modern Art Oxford, July - September 2007.
This title explores various themes related to boys, highlighting their sensuality, flirtatiousness, and vulnerability, from being passive love objects to soldier boys and the female gaze.
Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality.With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing.Erudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism as the millennium draws to a close. Here is all the polemical power that sold over a million copies of The Female Eunuch and kept its author at the heart of controversy ever since. The announcement in February 1998 that this book was coming was enough to send the world's media into a frenzied spin of speculation: The Whole Woman will be required reading for thinking adults everywhere.
The term "slip-shod sibyls", adapted from a gibe of Alexander Pope, encapsulates the common contempt for the half-educated women who dared to expose themselves in the pre-1900 literary market-place. In this collection, Germaine Greer argues that the problem is not that such women were ignored but that, when most women were unable to express themselves in written form at all, and only a tiny minority dared to write in metre, the female poet was given undue attention, flattered and exploited only to be rejected and humiliated in her own lifetime and forgotten by posterity. She argues that what has come down to us is largely unworthy of inclusion in the canon. In many cases, the texts are inauthentic and cannot be relied upon to represent women's work or women's sensibility. As much of the poetry is intensely derivative, it cannot be evaluated by readers unfamiliar with the poets' models. This study examines the life and work of an extraordinary group of women - from the myth of Sappho to the dishonesty of Katherine Philips, the enduring mysteries of Aphra Behn and the tragic tale of Letitia Landon, forced to masquerade as "The Child of Song".
Některé postřehy o Shakespearově díle z různých aspektů.
With outrage and compassion, insight and scholarship, the internationally bestselling author of The Female Eunuch confronts the subject of menopause. "A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, bruising, exasperating fury of a book".--The New York Times Book Review.
