Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is an Australianborn writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the secondwave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge.

Greer was born in Melbourne, the eldest of three children , to South Africa born Eric Reginald Greer and Margaret Mary Lafrank. Peggy, a milliner, had married Reg in March 1937. He was a newspaper advertising representative, who served as a wartime RAAF officer. According to Greer, her mother suffered from what was probably Aspergers Syndrome, and as a result they had a difficult relationship. Greer left home because of it when she was 18.

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