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- Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Applied Geography, grade: sehr gut, University of Innsbruck (Translationswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer (1970)Germaine Greer was born in 1939 in Melbourne, but spent most of her life inEngland. She is a writer, broadcaster and professor of English andcomparative studies.The main themes of her literary activity are art and literature, abortion andinfertility and she was one of the most important supporters of the women'smovement and was an engaged representative of feminism.With "The Female Eunuch" "she broke taboos and changed the lives of awhole generation of women..."1.Her book is a statement against establishment and she fights the stereotypicalideal of the "Feminine". Besides this she writes about men's hatred of womenand how man "waylays women for the sake of finding sexual release" p. 268.Germaine Greer shocked the public by describing her experiences of lesbiansex, rape, abortion, infertility, failed marriage and menopause.She writes about marriage "Experience is too costly a teacher: we cannot allmarry in order to investigate the situation. The older sisters must teach uswhat they found out"2And about single women she writes "They dawdle and dream in their dead-end jobs, overtly miserable, because they are publicly considered to be."
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Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck Institut für Translationswissenschaft
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Representations, Realia, Examples 1970-97 and 1997 -2000 (Worksheet4)
1)The Female Eunuch,Germaine Greer (1970)
Germaine Greer was born in 1939 in Melbourne, but spent most of her life in England. She is a writer, broadcaster and professor of English and comparative studies.
The main themes of her literary activity are art and literature, abortion and infertility and she was one of the most important supporters of the women’s movement and was an engaged representative of feminism. With “TheFemale Eunuch”“she broke taboos and changed the lives of a whole generation of women…”1.
Her book is a statement against establishment and she fights the stereotypical ideal of the “Feminine”. Besides this she writes about men’s hatred of women and how man “waylays women for the sake of finding sexual release” p. 268. Germaine Greer shocked the public by describing her experiences of lesbian sex, rape, abortion, infertility, failed marriage and menopause. She writes about marriage “Experience is too costly a teacher: we cannot all marry in order to investigate the situation. The older sisters must teach us what they found out”2
And about single women she writes “They dawdle and dream in their deadend jobs, overtly miserable, because they are publicly considered to be.”3
2) Virago4
Virago Press is a feminist publishing company and was founded in the year 1973 to publish “women’s literature”. It became the largest women’s imprint in the world. Virago usually publishes in paperback. They published the major feminist thinkers like Kate Millett, Adrienne Rich, Angela Carter, Juliet Mitchell,…In 1993 they published about 100 books a year.5
1http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandso
2Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1970, p. 351
3ibid, p. 299 and Cf. ibid, p. 263-270
4picture: http://www.virago.co.uk/virago/virago/history.asp?TAG=&CID=virago
5Cf. http://www.virago.co.uk/virago/virago/history.asp?TAG=&CID=virago
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3)Spare Rib6on adverts by the Austrian National Tourist Office in London
Spare Rib was a magazine first published in 1972 with the aim to record the situation of women, their struggles in a male-dominated society ( for example the claim for equal pay, for shared housework, for the right of abortion and birth control) and their battle for independence. It was a very important organ for Women’s Liberation. Its issues were typical for the feminist movement of the 70s. They analysed advertisements to find out sexist allusions in them. An advert by the Austrian National Tourist Office in London was banned by the ASA (the Advertising Standards Authority) because they were making publicity for hiking in Austria by employing sexist means.7
4)Cosmopolitan8(also called Cosmo)
It’s a magazine published monthly. It was founded in 1886 and thought to be a magazine for the whole family.
It reaches readers all over the world and there are versions in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Swedish…). In the 1960s it became a women’s magazine.9
6picture: http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/234
7Cf. http://www.bartleby.com/61/51/S0605100.html; Cf. http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/Sixties/Feminism/publications.htm ; Cf. Dictionary of English Language and Culture. Longman Group UK, Essex, 1992, p. 1272 and Cf. http://www.asa.org.uk/contentnew_ofcom.asp
8picture: http://www.ellisparkerbutler.info/epb/coverart.asp?p=Cosmopolitan and http://homepage.mac.com/cssfan/jackfinney/gallery_mag_covers.htm
9Cf. http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan and Cf. Dictionary of English Language and Culture, p. 287
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5)Steptoe and Son10(BBC) was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
