The Female Eunuch.

£650 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

inscribed to a prominent colleague in the year of publication First edition, first impression of this cornerstone of feminist literature. Inscribed by the author to Renaissance and Classics scholar K.W "Ken" Gransden (1925-1998). 'For Ken in exchange for "Tudor Verse Satire". Love, Germaine Greer.' Gransden and Greer were colleagues at the University of Warwick, where she was a Shakespeare scholar between 1968 and 1972. Tudor Verse Satire was published in 1970, the same year as The Female Eunuch. 'Germaine Greer is feminism's arsonist. Unlike with, say, Andrea Dworkin or Kimberlé Crenshaw, there isn't one particular topic or theory she will always be associated with. Her value to feminism is as a destructive force, tearing down stereotypes and smashing taboos. She is living testament to the idea that women don't have to do what has always been expected of them: be good girls, get married, have kids, be nice and shut up. As a public intellectual, she had self-confidence you could bounce rocks off. She was never ashamed of being clever. She demanded to be heard.' (Helen Lewis, 'What Germaine Greer and the Female Eunuch Mean to Me, the Guardian, January 26, 2014). First edition, first printing; 8vo; spotting to edges of text block; original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt, edges of boards a little rubbed and faded, a very good copy in the price-clipped jacket with fading and toning of the spine and edges; 354pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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