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Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.〔Susan Margery, "Germaine Greer," in Bonnie G. Smith (ed.), ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History'', Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 651. Jeslyn Medoff, "Germaine Greer," in Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory'', Routledge, 2010, p. 263. Ann Standish, ("Greer, Germaine (1939–)" ), ''The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia'', Australian Women's Archives Project, 2014. ( "Germaine Greer" ), ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2015.〕 She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, ''The Female Eunuch'' (1970), became an international best-seller and made her a household name.〔 In it she argued that women are forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfill male fantasies of womanhood.〔Susan P. Reilly, "Female Eunuch," in Wallace 2010, p. 213.〕 Her work since then has included ''Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility'' (1984), ''The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause'' (1991), ''The Whole Woman'' (1999), ''Shakespeare's Wife'' (2007) and ''White Beech: The Rainforest Years'' (2013). She owns and finances Stump Cross Books, which publishes the work of 17th- and 18th-century women poets.〔Medoff 2010; (Stump Cross Books ).〕 Greer is a liberation rather than equality feminist. Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and "agreeing to live the lives of unfree men." "Women's liberation," she wrote in ''The Whole Woman'', "did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual." She argues instead that liberation is about asserting difference and "insisting on it as a condition of self-definition and self-determination." It is a struggle for the freedom of women to "define their own values, order their own priorities and decide their own fate." ==Early life and education== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Germaine Greer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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