The Female Eunuch

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BooknewsA new edition of the seminal feminist treatise that launched Greer's writing career. She calls it part of the second feminist waveof ungenteel middle-class women calling for revolution as opposed to the earlier genteel middle-class ladies clamoring for reform. The first edition was published by MacGibbon and Kee in Britain in 1970. After three decades, it survives without either an index or a mention in . Former editor Jennifer Baumgardner contributes an introduction putting it in current context. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.