The Female Eunuch (50 page)

REVOLUTION

Anna Martin,
The Married Working Woman
, published by the Na- tional Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, July 1911.
Among the poorer families especially, the mental superiority of the wife to the husband is very marked. The ceaseless fight these women wage in defence of their homes against all the forces of the industrial system, develops in them an alertness and an adaptability to which the men, deadened by laborious and uninspiring toil, can lay no claim.
Mrs Mary Chatterji was told by the Home Office that ‘it is con- sidered that a wife should in general be prepared to make her home in her husband’s country’ (
The Times
, 3.2.1970).
Gingerbread, 35 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BN, and Mothers-in-Action, 10 Lady Somerset Road, London NW5 (
Sunday Times
, 25.1.1970).
Diane Hart sought to launch a Petticoat Party in May 1969, when she inserted an advertisement in
The Times
which read ‘Ladies, don’t just sit there. If you are sick of castles in the air, sit in the House of Commons. Wanted, 630 ladies willing to gamble £500 each, fighting a constituency’. Needless to say no political party resulted. She stood for election herself and was duly defeated. Three American charmers formed a Pussycat League to express Pussycat Power, which would obtain universal sway by caresses and coddling (
Sunday Mirror
, 2.11.1969). No appreciable political or other results have ensued from this hardly novel technique.

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About the Author

G
ERMAINE
G
REER
—an Australian-born writer, broadcaster, and re- tired academic—is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of our time. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since
The Female Eunuch
became an international bestseller in 1970, turning her into a household name overnight and bringing her both adulation and criticism. She is the author of numerous feminist books, including
The Whole Woman
, a sequel to
The Female Eunuch
, and
The Change
. Her latest book is
Shakespeare’s Wife
, a biography of Ann Hathaway and a social history of Shakespeare’s time. She lives in northwest Essex with two dogs, thirteen geese, and a fluctuating number of doves.

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Credits

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover photograph “Barbara” from In Camera: Eighty-two Images by Fifty-two Women by Christian Vogt, 1979

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