Germaine Greer
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Greer is an Australian writer and academic regarded as one of the major voices of second-wave feminism.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 29 Jan 1939, Melbourne, Australia (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University of Melbourne (graduated 1959); University of Sydney (MA); PhD, Newnham College, Cambridge (1968), on Shakespeare's early comedies (opens wiqqi.app)
- Academic posts: University of Warwick, from 1968 to 1972; Newnham College, Cambridge; University of Tulsa (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Denouncing the abuse of women is not enough (opens korrents.com)
“It’s not enough to denounce the abuse of women.”
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Non-consensual sex is rape even without violence (opens korrents.com)
“Now, most of the people in this country do not believe that non-consensual sex is rape. They think it has to be violent: wrong, it doesn’t.”
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Heterosexual sex must be rescued from pornography, prostitution and commercialisation (opens korrents.com)
“Somehow, we have got to rescue the institution of hetero-sex from the mess it is in and that is partly brought about by pornography, prostitution, commercialisation and the cheapening of everything about a woman’s body.”
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Denouncing the abuse of women is not enough (opens korrents.com)