The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer (Anchor, £7.99 in UK)

Germaine Greer is furious about the complacency of post-feminism - and wants us all to be just as angry

Germaine Greer is furious about the complacency of post-feminism - and wants us all to be just as angry. Women have settled for the liberal notion of equality ("agreeing to live the lives of unfree men") when they should be fighting for liberation, argues the erudite feminist. In this sequel to The Female Eunuch, Greer is at her polemical best: infuriating, challenging and occasionally shocking. Men - whom she describes as "a kind of idiot savant" and "freaks of nature" - would not miss women, who are "smelly, bloody, noisy, hairy", if they were replaced by a virtual fetishist and if children could be manufactured, she claims. As always, it's impossible to be neutral about Greer and this contentious treatise demands reactions - emotional, intellectual, political and personal.