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Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Germaine Greer seems to have been a trigger for outbursts of acrimony ever since the publication of The Female Eunuch forty years ago, but what was the book actually about, and why has it entrenched such violent reactions in Australia since 1970?

Professor Alison Bartlett, Chair of the Centre for Women’s Studies at The University of Western Australia will give a talk and facilitate a discussion about the impact of this controversial book at a free public lecture to be held at UWA next Thursday 6 May.

Topics of discussion about the book will include –

What made it so radical, and does it have anything to say to us forty years on?

What was it like to read the book then, and how did it change our world?

WHAT:           Lecture, Eunuchs Still? A Conversation Commemorating Forty Years since the Publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch .

WHEN:           6.00pm, Thursday, 6 May 2010

WHERE:        Webb Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Geography Building, UWA

The lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies (+61 8) 6488 1340

Media references

Professor Alison Bartlett (Centre for Women’s Studies)  (+61 8) 6488 2066
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716

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