Beginning with a section on “Body,” she tackles the Barbie school of beauty, cosmetic surgery, transsexuals, abortion, and mutilation (including episiotomies, cesarean sections, and hysterectomies). Wrong, asserts Greer: “On every side, we see women troubled, exhausted, mutiliated, lonely, guilty, mocked by the headlined success of the few.” Greer proceeds to outline, issue by issue, where women are stuck in the mire of an unliberated society. Greer (Daddy, We Hardly Knew You, 1990, etc.) said that she would never write a sequel to The Female Eunuch (1971), but the “fire flared up in belly” when she saw feminism stalled and some feminists asserting that women now had it all. This book takes up where The Female Eunuch left off, trashing the optimists who believe feminism has moved women along and the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately generation who believe there are no battles left to fight. Greer’s ba-a-a-ck in top effing form, as she might say.
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