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3 unusual facts about The Female Eunuch


Sonny Mehta

Mehta began his publishing career in London, where he co-founded Paladin Books and was editorial director of Pan Books, with its Picador imprint, under which his first success was The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer.

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He is also said to have possessed a copy of the book The Female Eunuch by feminist author Germaine Greer.

Thelma Forshaw

In January 1972 Forshaw wrote a review of Germaine Greer's book, The Female Eunuch (1970), for The Age which "has stirred up a considerable controversy".



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Hawksian woman

Germaine Greer describes this archetype as the 'Female Eunuch', the perfect housewife who was often portrayed with actresses like Marilyn Monroe and Catherine Deneuve and directed by Howard Hawks.