Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
Typical of the systemic philistinism of women's studies programs from the 1970s on, strong voices like those of McCarthy, Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer were excluded from the maudlin, victim-centric curriculum. Things began to change in scattered quarters in the 1990s, thanks to a new generation of more open-minded feminists, but it is certainly the case that the overwhelming majority of women literature majors in this country are graduating without ever having heard Mary McCarthy's... (Salon)
Sons and daughters of the Southern Cross Oct 10, 2009
Donohoe is the descendant of four First Fleet convicts who produced a sizeable chunk of that first generation: Edward Goodin, who had 17 children here; James Squire, the father of 11, a publican deported for stealing a chicken, and the name behind the beer we drink today; and Nathaniel Lucas and Olivia Gascoigne, who produced 14 children here (Nathaniel fathered another child in England and another on Norfolk Island) and spawned a clan that 00004000 now numbers at least 41,000 descendants,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Poet Paterson wins 10,000 prize Oct 8, 2009
Emma Jones's award-winning work is inspired by the landscape of her native Australia, praised by Germaine Greer as "like a pattern in Aboriginal painting". Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Anthology of Australian history launched Oct 8, 2009
A speech by former prime minister Paul Keating, a memoir by Germaine Greer and a few works of Barry Humphries, a la Dame Edna Everage, are also among the more than 500 pieces by 300 authors. Covering the most significant writings over the past two centuries, Ms Gillard told the launch party the anthology would help Americans understand a little bit more about Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Children owned like pets: Greer Oct 5, 2009
THE self-dubbed ''living legend'' Germaine Greer was her usual self at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas yesterday, ticking off everything from American libertarians to workplace relations, rape law, child-rearing, adolescence and old age in less than an hour - and fitting in a crack at Steve Irwin. Speaking under the banner that freedom is the most dangerous idea of all, Dr Greer said children are the least free of all, and are owned like pets or slaves. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A kiss'n'tell about James and Kerry Oct 3, 2009
When PS suggested such a panel needed the sort of weight Jana Wendt or Germaine Greer could provide, the television executive appeared slightly perplexed. Kerrie-Anne Kennerley was in contention for a spot on a panel-style program three years ago, but remains at Channel Nine where she is about to clock up the 1500th episode of her morning show. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Verbal grenades at speakers' corner Sep 23, 2009
Freedom: The Most Dangerous Idea of All Germaine Greer. October 4, 11am. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Greer in bust-up over new book on women's bodies Sep 16, 2009
Feminist Germaine Greer has urged women to send pictures of their bra-less breasts to British culture critic Stephen Bayley in protest at his new book about the female body. Bayley's book, Woman as Design, has faced a barrage of criticism from the Australian academic, who branded the tome "meaningless" and full of "odd notions". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Why Vogue Continues to Disappoint Me Sep 12, 2009
This is the magazine that in 1972 ran a dialogue between Kathleen Tynan and Germaine Greer in which Greer states, Women have no property because nearly everything in their houses belongs to their husbands. It has profiled the female presidents of Chile and Liberia, female media moguls in India, and, in August. (Slate)
From casting pouch to TV queen Sep 10, 2009
Germaine Greer, the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant and professor of English literature at the University of Warwick, attributes the show's popularity to its vivid imagery of the Australian outback. "A cobalt blue sky, grey vegetation, ruddy brown rocks, and I was just staring at it ... I don't think I even realised how homesick I was until I saw those tree shapes, the landscape and the light," she says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
‘Mad Men’ culture survived the ’60s Aug 31, 2009
We want them to read Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer, get mad, demand equal pay, wear more comfortable underwear, and stop reflexively deferring to men. We want them to wake up and smell the coffee and tell the men to make their own coffee. (Boston Globe)
Elizabeth Farrelly Jul 29, 2009
New houses are universally horrible," ran a recent Germaine Greer headline, "and eco-houses are the most horrible of the lot. " It's not quite up there, limelight-wise, with black rage. But it should be. And here's why, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. Wednesday August 13, 2008 Chippendale is revolting. With luck, it'll spread. "It's important that you don't think I'm good at this," says Michael Mobbs, and he doesn't mean revolt, which is rather his forte. "I'm not Peter Cundall. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Column: Ready, set, get going! Jul 25, 2009
Hello To paraphrase feminist author and activist Germaine Greer, I am going to exercise my inalienable right to invent myself. A while ago, I became an entrepreneur myself and launched my own business. (Arlington Advocate, MA)
Eccentric duo wear their patriotic art Jul 14, 2009
Establishment figures such as Germaine Greer might consider them obvious, but living sculptures Gilbert and George are true originals in a sea of left-leaning art-world conservatism, writes Anna van Praagh ... They were wounded greatly when Germaine Greer concluded a savage attack on their work by writing that the only way they could complete their oeuvre satisfactorily was "by dying - in unison" ... " The Telegraph, London send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or us.... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Room of Her Own May 25, 2009
Feminism certainly wasn t. Following Friedan s death last month, on her 85th birthday, Germaine Greer waltzed over her grave, telling The Guardian, Betty was disconcerted by lesbianism, leery of abortion and ultimately concerned for the men whose ancient privileges she feared were being eroded. The world will be a tamer place without her. (The American Conservative)
Fun and games with the Queen May 22, 2009
Germaine Greer played to a sold-out room last night at the Sydney Writers' Festival with a lecture, "Australian Way: The Influence of Australia and Australians on British Politics and Politicians". Earlier, the ABC's Quentin Dempster launched And So It Went: Night Thoughts In A Year Of Change by Bob Ellis, calling the author a lifetime Labor loyalist "a walking breach of party discipline" and "a great Australian outrage". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Germaine takes aim May 22, 2009
A big night with Germaine Greer - Books - Entertainment - smh ... A big night with Germaine Greer ... Germaine Greer at Sydney Writers' Festival. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In The Kitchen May 20, 2009
The book, about London's Bangladeshi community, became a bestseller, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, among others, and was made into a film that generated a publicist's dream: controversy stoked by critical pronouncements from Germaine Greer. Great success can make it hard for an author to front up to the keyboard for the second time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Woman joins that dread poets society May 4, 2009
Germaine Greer, writing in anticipation of last week's announcement, argued that: "Most women would have the sense to refuse the chore." Too right. The pay works out at 5760 ($11,775) a year, plus 650 free bottles of oloroso sherry. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
On the shortlist May 2, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Local bookish types nominate their picks of the Sydney Writers' Festival program. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Time for bras to be tax deductible Apr 30, 2009
Today's feminist should be as at home with a calculator as a placard, and as well versed in the Tax Act as Germaine Greer. Women, and in particular mothers, are harshly treated by Australia's system. (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
Why Bea Arthur was golden Apr 28, 2009
This was when Gloria Steinem was flipping her long, streaked hair and saying that she "[needed] a man like a fish needs a bicycle"; when Germaine Greer was unleashing her Glamazon-wisdom to seduce and attack everyone from dumb-struck Playboys to Norman Mailer; when plain-Jane everywoman, it seemed, felt like taking Erica Jong's dirty lead in Fear of Flying and leaving her husband for a sexy vagabond. And Arthur, the impossibly tall, warrior-stylish eponymous heroine, made Maude an unprecedented... (Globe and Mail)
Beacon Hill's a true bistro, but with a French soul Apr 15, 2009
This results in amusing eavesdropping and people-watching: Who is that conservative-looking guy talking about Germaine Greer, kitchen remodeling, sex, and the songs of World War I. How does that woman get her hair to resemble a tall pouf of gray cotton candy. (Boston Globe)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers April 12 / Apr 13, 2009
SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE, Germaine Greer (Harper Perennial; 432 pages; $14. 99): The feminist scholar questions what we know about the life of Ann Hathaway. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Thorn Birds become song birds in Britain Apr 6, 2009
" McCullough released The Thorn Birds novel, an epic love story of a Catholic priest and a woman in the Australian outback, in 1977. The musical is being produced by The Wales Theatre Company. Australian feminist and academic Germaine Greer has recently criticised McCullough for failing to include aborigines in The Thorn Birds. McCullough defended her work, saying: "Poor old Germs. She's just currying favour with the politically correct. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Chat with Geoffery Apr 5, 2009
" A Rhodes Scholarship at University College followed and Robertson joined what he calls the second wave of Australians to arrive in England, after famous ex-pats such as Clive James and Germaine Greer. And it was in London in 1971 that Robertson found himself assisting John Mortimer in the celebrated trial of the Felix Dennis, Richard Neville and Jim Anderson. The trio were charged with conspiring to "corrupt public morals" with an edition of their magazine, Oz, featuring allegedly obscene... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Author Elaine Showalter at Harvard Book Store Apr 1, 2009
THE BARD'S BETTER HALF Germaine Greer, noted feminist and authority on early English literature, combines both interests in her book "Shakespeare's Wife," in which she works to flesh out what little is known of the bard's spouse, Ann. Greer appears Friday at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. (Boston Globe)
Focus falls on a mythic Obama Mar 27, 2009
Germaine Greer will reliably provoke audiences with a lecture on Australia's influence on British politics from Thatcherism to New Labour. But Were's themes will also find expression in more personal and literary forms. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Playing against the odds Feb 28, 2009
This year among the contenders for best new comedy will be Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species, in which Dame Eileen Atkins played the feminist with a passing resemblance to Germaine Greer. Atkins is no stranger to either the Oliviers or to Murray-Smith's work. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Issues a struggle even for Robertson Feb 13, 2009
For his first full program about indigenous affairs, Robertson gathered a panel of commentators and experts including the polemicist Dr Germaine Greer, the Tasmanian activist Michael Mansell, Professor Marcia Langton and Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Tony Abbott. He then let them loose upon each other in a whodunit laden with theft, grog, beauty pageants, access permits, tourism ventures, sexual abuse, murder and the media. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Top Gear revs up for Sydney Feb 8, 2009
Germaine Greer even warranted a mention in their media appearance. "She's still attractive," Clarkson said of Greer. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
