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Ten Bedtime Poems

Product Description: A beautiful and unique poetry chapbook, to be given instead of a greeting card. Designed and printed on high quality, tactile paper and packaged with a bookmark `left blank for your message' as well as an envelope, you need only a stamp to send this lovely gift on its way...read more

By Germaine Greer (editor)

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9781907598289 | Spi pmplt edition (Dufour Editions, July 22, 2015), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A beautiful and unique poetry chapbook, to be given instead of a greeting card.

White Beech: The Rainforest Years

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9781620406113 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, July 15, 2014, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781408846735 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, July 7, 2015), cover price $18.00

The Getting of Wisdom

By Germaine Greer (introduced by)

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Paperback:

9781922079404 | Reprint edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, April 2, 2013), cover price $14.95

Shakespeare

Briefly profiles the life of William Shakespeare and examines his plays from poetical, ethical, political, and sociological points of view

By Germaine Greer

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Paperback:

9780192875389 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Briefly profiles the life of William Shakespeare and examines his plays from poetical, ethical, political, and sociological points of view

On Rage

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9780522855180 | Melbourne Univ Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $15.95

The Female Eunuch.

Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultureâpast and presentâGermaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is both an important social commentary and a passionately argued polemical masterpiece. This is one of the most famous, most widely read books on feminism ever written.

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Hardcover:

9780070243729 | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer.

Paperback:

9780061579530, titled "The Female Eunuch" | Harpercollins, October 1, 2008, cover price $15.99

9780374527624, titled "The Female Eunuch" | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 5, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In a new edition of the seminal feminist treatise, the author of The Whole Woman discusses the physical and psychological features of her gender, stressing the social significance of love and hate, and explores the influence of social conditioning on a woman's attitudes and roles in life.

9780553204438, titled "Female Eunuch" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, June 1, 1981), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A feminist discusses the physical and psychological features of her sex, stressing the social significance of love and hate

9780070243750, titled "The Female Eunuch" | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1980, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A landmark of feminist literature examines women's cultural history, their psychological development, and the way in which they have been socially deformed by men

The Whole Woman

Argues that the Women's movement has been sidetracked from seeking true liberation by settling for an inferior form of equality

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Hardcover:

9780375407475 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues that the Women's movement has been sidetracked from seeking true liberation by settling for an inferior form of equality

Paperback:

9780385720038 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A sequel to The Female Eunuch considers the issues faced by women at the turn of the century, revealing how discrimination and exploitation are still problems, while arguing for an organic view of the female model.

Miscellaneous:

9780307561138 | Anchor Books, April 22, 2009, cover price $18.00

Tacita Dean

Product Description: Illustrated throughout, this title discusses the variety and mystery surrounding Tacita Dean's work - an internationally respected artist.

By Germaine Greer, Jean-Christophe Royoux and Marina Warner

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9780714844282 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, July 1, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Illustrated throughout, this title discusses the variety and mystery surrounding Tacita Dean's work - an internationally respected artist.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

By Lorna Sage (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521495257 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9780521668132 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $34.99

Miscellaneous:

9780511074110 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $0.04 | also contains The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood

By Germaine Greer

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Paperback:

9781861977397 | Profile Books Ltd, October 30, 2004, cover price $14.00

The Beautiful Boy

Provides a collection of more than two hundred images from Western art that explores the beauty of male imagery.

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9780847825868 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Provides a collection of more than two hundred images from Western art that explores the beauty of male imagery.

Memoirs of a Madman

A young genius reflects upon his life of philosophy, and then his gradual descent into insanity as he obsesses over a beautiful woman he watches carefully by the ocean.

By Andrew Brown (trans), Gustave Flaubert and Germaine Greer (foreword by)

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9781843910008 | Hesperus Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A young genius reflects upon his life of philosophy, and then his gradual descent into insanity as he obsesses over a beautiful woman he watches carefully by the ocean.

Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

Product Description: A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life...read more

By Germaine Greer

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9780192802491 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 16, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life.

Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters And Their Work

Product Description: If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting-Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe KÃ¶llwitz-and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study...read more

By Germaine Greer

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9780756791148 | Diane Pub Co, October 30, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin?

9781860646775, titled "The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work" | Reprint edition (I B Tauris & Co Ltd, June 2, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A feminist study of the world of art reviews the barriers and constraints that have traditionally prevented female painters from winning recognition as artists in their own right and have robbed the world of artistic excellence.

Women's Sexual Passages: Finding Pleasure and Intimacy at Every Stage of Life

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By Elizabeth Davis and Germaine Greer (foreword by)

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Paperback:

9780897932929 | Hunter House, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.95

Lysistrata: The Sex Strike : After Aristophanes

By Aristophanes, Germaine Greer and Phil Willmott

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9780953675708 | Aurora Metro Pubns, November 1, 2000, cover price $18.95

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Product Description: Rochester was the most original talent among the poets of the Restoration and deserves serious study. Professor Germaine Greer's account of his work strives conscientiously to place it in its socio-political context and to describe the way the poet and and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Germaine Greer

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9780746308882 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rochester was the most original talent among the poets of the Restoration and deserves serious study.

Sexo Y Destino/Sex and Destiny

Examines parent-child relationships in the West, Middle East, India, and Africa and explores the possibility that Western culture hates its children and takes little pleasure from family life

By Germaine Greer

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9788401803185 | Aims Intl Books Corp, January 1, 1996, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Examines parent-child relationships in the West, Middle East, India, and Africa and explores the possibility that Western culture hates its children and takes little pleasure from family life

Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet

Product Description: 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...read more

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9780670849147 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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.

Winged Words: An Anthology of Victorian Women's Poetry and Verse

By Germaine Greer and Catherine W. Reilly (editor)

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Paperback:

9781870612241 | Indexed edition (Enitharmon Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $15.95

The Change

Product Description: "A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts...read more

By Germaine Greer

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9780517117842 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book.

The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause

The author of the The Female Eunuch examines diverse ideas and theories about menopause and aging, confronting the medical and pharmaceutical industries, which view menopause as a disease rather than a natural occurrence. Reprint. NYT.

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9780394582696 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A look at menopause challenges accepted notions about the physical and emotional effects of menopause and ageing, urging women to reassess the ways in which they contemplate and experience this life change

Paperback:

9780449908532 | Ballantine Books, August 10, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Challenges accepted notions about the physical and emotional effects of menopause and aging

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

The author offers an account of her probe into the secrets of her father's past, an intensely emotional journey that carried her around the world, into the memories of those who had known Reg Greer

By Germaine Greer

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Hardcover:

9780394583136 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author offers an account of her probe into the secrets of her father's past, an intensely emotional journey that carried her around the world, into the memories of those who had known Reg Greer

Paperback:

9780449905616 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 23, 1991), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The author offers an account of her probe into the secrets of her father's past, an intensely emotional journey that carried her around the world, into the memories of those who had known Reg Greer

The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

By Germaine Greer

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9780871133083 | Reprint edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $12.95

Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Women's Verse

Gathers poems by forty-five women poets and offers brief profiles of each writer

By Germaine Greer, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780374181604 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1989, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems by forty-five women poets and offers brief profiles of each writer

Paperback:

9780374521646, titled "Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems by forty-five women poets and offers brief profiles of each writer

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