![]() ![]() It contains material that some researchers might find confronting. Statements which form part of the collection are not made on behalf of t he University and do not represent the Universi ty's views. The Greer Archive has been made available because of its historical and research importance. Greer is the recipient of numerous schola rships, honours and awards. In 2013 Greer sold her archive to the University of Melbourne, with proceeds to benefit Friends of Gondwana. She is the president of the invertebrate charity Buglife and the founder of Friends of Gondwana Rainforest charity which manages the Cave Creek Rainforest Rehabilitation Scheme in Southern Queensland. Greer taught at the Universities of Tulsa (1979-1983) and Warwick (c. Greer is in addition the publisher of several volumes of seventeenth century women's writing under the imprint Stump Cross Books. III The Translations) with Dr Ruth Little 1993, Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recogni tion Rejection and the W omen Poet 1995, The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton (edited with Susan Hastin gs) 1997, The Whole Woman 199 9, John Wilmot Earl of Roches ter 1999, 101 Poems by 101 Women (ed.) 2001, The Boy (2003), Poems for Gardeners (ed.) 2003, Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhoo d (Quarterly Essay) 2003-2004, Shakespeare's Wife 2007, On Rage 2008, and White Beech 2013. ![]() This launched Greer's career as an author and was followed by a series of popular and academic books including: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of W omen Painters and their Work 1979, Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility 1984, Shakespear e 1986, The Madwoma n's Underclothes selected journalism 1964-1985 1986, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeen th Century W omen's Verse (coedited with Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone) 1988, Daddy we hardly knew you 1989, The Uncollected Verse of Aphra Behn (Ed.) 1989, The Change: Women Ageing and the Menopause 1991, The Collected Works of Katherine Philips: The Matchless Orinda (vol. It created a shock wave of recognition in women around the world, became an international bestseller and a landmark in the history of the women's movement and was reprinted and widely translated. In 1970 Greer published The Female Eunuch, which explored the limitations on women's lives and selves in the wider context of the liberation movemen ts of that time. Greer has written widely throughout her career for the mainstream press as a journalist, colu mnist and revi ewer. A contributor and editor for the underground press Oz and Suck magazines, Greer was also a gardening columnist 'Rose Blight' for Private Eye in the late 1960s and 1970s. ![]() Greer was one of the first women appointed full members of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and subsequently played roles in comedies for television, with regular appearances on radio and television continuing throughout her career. Greer earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge on Shakespeare's Early Comedies and was appointed Lecturer at the University of Warwick (1967-1972). She was educated at Star of the Sea College, Gardenvale, studied English and French literature and language at the University of Melbourne, (BA Hons) and graduated MA (Hons I) from the University of Sydney with a thesis on Byron's sa tiric verse, and w as a Senior Tutor i n English (1963 -1964). Germaine Greer, author, journalist, broadcaster, feminist and conservationist was born in Melbourne, Australia on January 29, 1939. ![]()
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