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'Greer has long-recognised a historical connection between women and the natural world as exploited, abused or undervalued in patriarchal societies. Greer has long recognised a historical connection between women and the natural world as exploited, abused or undervalued in patriarchal societies. In this column she discussed issues related to her Essex property: the native flora and fauna, her domestic animals, the challenges of growing certain plants, the treatment of livestock, her neighbours and village life, as well as commenting upon national environmental issues such as advocating for the wider use of wind power. Despite The Female Eunuch's widespread popularity, numerous translations, re-prints, as well as its influence on the formation of many second-wave Anglophone feminist critical theorists, the book remains largely unconsidered within feminist scholarship (Taylor et al. 1). Yet, there is much in the content of the book that demonstrates that not only was Greer on the pulse of contemporary unspoken concerns and desires, but she was radically forward-thinking in her perspectives on the human body, its relationship to the natural world and the limitations of the dominant, gendered, cultural attitudes of the mid-twentieth century.' (Publication abstract)
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