biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Feminist, writer, and lecturer, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. She studied at Melbourne, Sydney, and Cambridge universities, and became a lecturer in English at Warwick University (1968–73). Her controversial and highly successful book The Female Eunuch (1970) portrayed marriage as a legalized form of slavery for women, and attacked the misrepresentation of female sexuality by male-dominated society. She was director (1979–82) of the Tulsa Center for the Study of Women's Literature, OK, and since 1989 has been special lecturer and unofficial fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Later works include The Change (1991), a discussion of women, aging, and menopause, Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet (1995), and The Whole Woman (1999). |
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