Celebrating women's successes, The Whole Woman is a more positive book than The Female Eunuch.
Greer's polemic has the confident virtuosity of wit and maturity. In The Whole Woman, she analyzes, among other issues, the invasive ways in which the health industry persuades women to have their bodies and reproductive systems "managed." Greer lays out the facts about the high failure rate and devastating side effects of in vitro fertilization and the incongruence between the "success" of breast implants in achieving the "perfect" mammary to please men and the continuing failures in detecting and treating increasingly prevalent breast cancer. Thirty years later, Germaine Greer is ready to get angry again. For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG-"before Greer" and "after Greer." It's all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of The Female Eunuch.
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