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Also known as Rose Blight, Dr. G Terf

Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)

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Germaine Greer is an author born on 29 January 1939 in GB. Her professional work period began in 1970. She has published 67 works, including *Min ṿe-goral*, *Lines of Life*, *Lysistrata*, and *Kissing the rod*. Crossref records five of her works.

Greer has contributed to public discourse through various statements. She has noted that human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves, describing the pre-emption of this right as brain-washing. She has also observed that no one goes to the toilet in novels, suggesting that readers might think none of us had bladders. Additionally, she has stated that freedom is fragile and must be protected, arguing that sacrificing it, even temporarily, constitutes a betrayal.

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Gender
female
Citizenship
Australia
Place of birth
Melbourne
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Notable work
The Female Eunuch
Field of work
feminism
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Germaine Greer, 28 October 2013 (cropped).jpg
Political ideology
anarchism
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date of birth
1939-01-29
influenced by
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start of work period
1970-00-00
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Germaine Greer (/ɡrɪər/; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

Specialising in English and women's literature, Greer has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. She started living in the UK in 1964, and from the 1990s until her later years, divided her time between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England.

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