WRITER

Germaine Greer

1939 - Today

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (; 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.Specializing in English and women's literature, she 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. Based in the United Kingdom since 1964, she has divided her time since the 1990s between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England.Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970), made her a household name. An international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement, it offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women were forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfil male fantasies of what being a woman entailed.Greer's subsequent work has focused on literature, feminism and the environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germaine Greer has received more than 2,940,905 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Germaine Greer is the 2,975th most popular writer (down from 2,223rd in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Australia (down from 71st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Australian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

2.9M
Page Views (PV)
53.06
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
64
Languages Editions (L)
2.30
Effective Languages (L*)
6.79
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The obstacle race

Women painters, Painting, Biography

1979

Shakespeare's wife

Social conditions, Women, Authors' spouses

Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare did well to distance himself.While Shakespeare is above all the poet of marriage—repeatedly in his plays, constant wives redeem unjust and deluded husbands—scholars persist in positing the worst about the writer's own spouse. In Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, combining literary-historical techniques with documentary evidence about life in Stratford, to reset the story of Shakespeare's marriage in its social context. With deep insight and intelligence, she offers daring and thoughtful new theories about the farmer's daughter who married England's greatest poet, painting a vivid portrait of a remarkable woman.A passionate and perceptive work of first-rate scholarship that reclaims this maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny, Shakespeare's Wife poses bold questions and opens new fields of investigation and research.

2007

Sex and destiny

Sex, Birth control, Population

1984

The Change

Aging, Menopause, Middle aged women

1991

La femme eunuque

Women, Femmes, Conditions sociales

1970

The female eunuch

Feminism, History and condition of women, Psychology

1970

Page views of Germaine Greers by language

Over the past year Germaine Greer has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 347,990 views, followed by German (6,686), and Spanish (6,575). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Quechua (76.20%), Japanese (67.06%), and Hindi (51.57%)