Germaine Greer
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How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
- Education
- October 20, 2020, 00:00
The convent school prefect is having a moment. From arts and media to politics and law, it’s the graduates of all-girls Catholic schools who are blazi(...)

Clive James: Few others did so many things so well
- Culture
- November 27, 2019, 19:00
Clive James, who has died at the age of 80, was one of his era’s great polymaths. (His near-contemporary Jonathan Miller, whose death was announced on(...)

Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’
- Film
- March 16, 2019, 05:00
Before I meet Rose McGowan, I spend a lot of time wondering which Rose McGowan I am going to meet. The steely Rose McGowan who faced down her a(...)

New doctrine threatens freedom of speech in universities
- Science
- January 3, 2019, 01:00
A principal function of the university is to conduct rational enquiry in order to discover/create new knowledge. Rational enquiry is dependent on acad(...)

Are uterus transplants ethically acceptable?
- Health & Family
- December 6, 2018, 17:01
In The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer writes of surrogacy: “. . . if preparing a womb to harbour the progeny of strangers is morally acceptable to us, we(...)

The brave new world of wombless gestation
- Health & Family
- October 17, 2018, 17:01
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), something odd is going on at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The process is ectogenesi(...)

How to be a good man: what I learned from a month reading feminist classics
- Books
- October 2, 2018, 10:23
“He covered my mouth with his hand and introduced his penis. I thought my last hour had arrived. I had the feeling my stomach was turning.” These are(...)

Germaine Greer: not everyone agrees with her – least of all Germaine Greer
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 9, 2018, 22:00
Who said this: “An awful lot of husbands enact a diurnal crime on the body of their wives everyday”? And who said this, about 30 years later: “Most ra(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Germaine Greer: ‘Most rape is just lazy, careless and insensitive’
- Books
- May 31, 2018, 06:30
Author and feminist academic Germaine Greer has called for the lowering of punishment for rape and said society should not see it as a “spectacularly (...)