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Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer

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Also known as Rose Blight, Dr. G Terf

Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)

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Germaine Greer is an author born on 29 January 1939 in GB. Her professional work period began in 1970. She has published 67 works, including *Min ṿe-goral*, *Lines of Life*, *Lysistrata*, and *Kissing the rod*. Crossref records five of her works.

Greer has contributed to public discourse through various statements. She has noted that human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves, describing the pre-emption of this right as brain-washing. She has also observed that no one goes to the toilet in novels, suggesting that readers might think none of us had bladders. Additionally, she has stated that freedom is fragile and must be protected, arguing that sacrificing it, even temporarily, constitutes a betrayal.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
29 January 1939
Works
67

Top works

  • Min ṿe-goral
  • Lines of Life
  • Lysistrata
  • Kissing the rod
  • Kissing the rod

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1939-01-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
118
Total plays
288

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,855x

  2. Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    · 2010 · cited 6,335x

  3. 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities

    · 2011 · cited 5,493x

  4. KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

    · 2024 · cited 4,054x

  5. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

    · 2019 · cited 3,649x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed.”
  • “The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”
  • “Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”
  • “No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.”
  • “How do we form ourselves into an activity — a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic — the most useless people in the world.”
  • “Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Germaine Greer (/ɡrɪər/; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

Specialising in English and women's literature, Greer has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. She started living in the UK in 1964, and from the 1990s until her later years, divided her time between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Germaine Greer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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