![]() In 2003 Germaine Greer was made Honorary Doctor of Letters. She is perhaps best known for her views on women's social and sexual status within society, and her outspoken and sometimes confrontational style have gained her both great respect and a certain notoriety. Her other books include The Whole Woman (1999), The Beautiful Boy (2003) and The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (2001). She then worked as a lecturer at Warwick from 1968 to 1973, during which time she published her first, and most famous work, The Female Eunuch (1970). She moved to the UK in 1964 and attended Newnham College, Cambridge, gaining her PhD in 1967 with a thesis on Shakespeare's early comedies. ![]() ![]() She studied English and French at Melbourne University then gained an MA in Romantic Poetry from Sydney. She is a Bye-Fellow of Newnham College Cambridge. ![]() In 1998 she was appointed Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick (now retired). Areas of Interest Media, Campaigner, Literatureīorn in Melbourne, Australia, in 1939, Germaine Greer is a writer, broadcaster and feminist icon. ![]()
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