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Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this analysis investigates the causes of rage and its consequences in Aboriginal men. Released six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians, this is an urgent and provocative examination of disempowerment. With acuity and passion, this essay not only contemplates rage but also its corollary, grief.

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Aristophanes' classic play retold in a bang up to the minute way.

Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy wife as a triumphant denouement, yet scholars persist in believing that his own wife was resented and even hated by him. Here Germaine Greer strives to re-embed the story of their marriage in its social context and presents new hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married our greatest poet. This is a d...

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A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.

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. At dawn, in a men's bathhouse, leading society woman Lysistrata gathers an assembly of Athenian and Spartan women to discuss negotiating a peace treaty. Their tactics are simple: they will refuse their men sex until peace is declared.|11 women, ...

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* Poems about gardens and gardening from around the world and across time, collected by the writer, critic and gardener, Germaine Greer. * A light-hearted and witty but scholarly approach

Una serie de ensayos con un tema central: la revolución sexual está marchita. Lejos de tomar las riendas de sus destinos, las mujeres se han dejado engañar y siguen obedeciendo a las reglas masculinas. Con estilo directo y con inteligencia Germaine Greer profundiza en cuestiones como la tiranía del trabajo en casa, la prisión de los productos de belleza, la ginecología y las píldoras mágicas, el cuidado de los niños o la explotación de la muje...

Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write. "A marvelous performance--. No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy, none makes [us] laugh the way she does."--"The Washington Post In this thoroughly engaging new book, the fervent, rollicking, straight-shooting Greer, is, as ever, "the ultimate agent provocateur" ("Mirabella). With passionate rhetoric, ou...

Here is what The Los Angeles Times Book Review says about The Madwoman's Underclothes: "Brilliant, witty, entertaining, incisive, always informed, the essays cover the diverse topics that are the history of the women's movement and our contemporary world. Greer's range is enormous".

The most personal book from the renowned author of the landmark feminist treatise The Female EunuchWhen her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a "curtain of silence" around himself? Why had he never spoken of his family? Why had he never shown her the love she craved? In this deeply moving book, Greer tells of the impassion...