I suppose that's difficult if the subject doesn't cooperate, however. I guess I was expecting more analysis and less rote reporting. As one other reader mentioned, it was much better in the first half than the second because it got to be monotonous and predictable. While I was immediately captivated and always read more than intended each time, it was a bit of a let down.

Very excited to learn this new biography was out, but never read the previous one by a different author. I know of Germaine by reputation and her books The Female Eunuch and The Change. The result is a rich, detailed portrait of a woman rightly both legendary and notorious - revealed here in all her glories, weaknesses, and contradictions. Beginning with Greer’s troubled early life in 1940s Melbourne, it traces her career, relationships with men and women, her travels, and her home life, and examines Greer’s work and ideas from The Female Eunuch to the #MeToo movement. Kleinhenz has interrogated Greer's personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known her from her school days onwards, and read every word written by and about her. This is the first biography of Greer for two decades, drawing on unprecedented access to her extensive personal archive, opened at Melbourne University in 2016.

It reveals how her public persona has shifted with time from sixties trailblazer to present-day rabble-rouser, and why she endures as a subject of fascination. This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism.

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