Germaine Greer’s ‘arch enemy’: Arianna Stassinopoulos’ 1974 Australian tour.
In 1973, Arianna Stassinopoulos published her anti-feminist tract,The Female Woman. Specifically formulated and marketed as a response to Germaine Greer’sThe Female Eunuch(1970), the book went on to become one of the bestselling backlash texts of the 1970s. This article examines the impact of this o...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 31; no. 87; pp. 43 - 62 |
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