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Catalogue of works of Germaine Greer by the author, including selected correspondence 1957-1997
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/442648This list was created by Greer to document the extent of her personal archive and market it to institutions interested in purchasing it. It lists the contents of the archive by year and then physical location (drawer). Greer has exhaustively listed many document by date, format, number of pages and distinguishing features, for example hand emendations or the manner of response.274340
Item: [2018.0054.00001] "Catalogue of works of Germaine Greer by the author, including selected correspondence 1957-1997
Falling off the edge of the modern world?
No full textComments on the J. Martin and J. Sugarman (see record 2000-08148-003) argument for a skeptical, middle-ground position that might allow psychologists to resist a forced choice between modernism and postmodernism in their subject matter and understanding. While the current author agrees with many of Martin and Sugarman's points, he questions 2 main issues. First, the modernism-postmodernism dichotomy needs to be revised. Second, Greer argues that this revision leads to a different conception of knowledge qua knowledge, which in turn affects the charges brought against postmodernism brought by Martin and Sugarman.Source type: Electronic(1
General correspondence received by Germaine Greer
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/71599The Greer Archive has been made available because of its historical and research importance. Statements which form part of the collection are not made on behalf of the University and do not represent the University's views. It contains material that some researchers might find confronting. This includes: explicit language and images that reflect either the attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published or the views of the creators of the material but may not be considered appropriate today; names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in published and unpublished printed material, audio recordings and photographs; discussion and descriptions of sexual violence, medical conditions and treatment.
The General Correspondence series consists of 120 boxes of correspondence received by Germaine Greer between 1958 and 2014. This encompasses responses by the public to Greer's published works, film, television and radio appearances, approaches for work from newspapers, production companies and academics, invitations to conferences, exhibitions and book launches, and personal correspondence with friends and lovers. The series reflects the remarkable diversity of Greer's career, from scholar and teacher of English literature, to enfant terrible of the second wave feminists, to enthusiastic gardener and conservationist.
Correspondence is filed alphabetically by surname, organisation or subject. Files are labelled with the first two or three letters, for example Correspondence LON. Exceptions to this principle include instances where there is a large amount of correspondence from specific individuals or organisations, such as Margaret Fink, the Daily Telegraph and the BBC, and the 'Women' files, which between 1969 and 2008 collect by year correspondence relating to women's organisations such as the Women's Liberation Workshop, The Women's Press and The Women of the Year Luncheon. This method of arrangement can lead to some uncertainty as to the location of specific items of correspondence. An approach for a television appearance for example might be filed under the name of the production company, the individual making the approach, the subject the program is addressing or the name of the program. Press releases and correspondence accompanying books sent by publishers are generally filed by the title of the author, though some are filed by the name of the publishing house or the name of the sender. Exhibition invitations, catalogues and press releases for individual artists are generally filed under the name of the artist, though some are filed by gallery.
Correspondents are listed sequentially per item. Secretarial staff and literary agents acting on Greer's behalf have not been listed as correspondents. Library of Congress subject headings have been used to identify subjects of discussion within the correspondence. Where no suitable headings exist, non-standard headings have been used. Subjects have not been recorded in this field where correspondence is unsolicited, is unrelated to Greer's work and there is no evidence of engagement by the recipient. Due to Greer's public prominence there is a great deal of unsolicited correspondence including requests for donations and autographs, manuscripts and requests for advice regarding publication, and attempts to raise awareness of personal plights and issues.
A remarkable aspect of the series is that Greer has frequently kept record of her responses to correspondents. From 1970 to the mid 1980's these take the form of carbon copies of typewritten responses. From 1985 Greer began using a computer and word processor to respond to correspondence and placed printouts of these on file. Later copies of these responses are frequently printed on the reverse of recycled printouts from drafts of books such as Shakespeare's Wife and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda or transcriptions from manuscript sources, however there is a gap in the mid 1990's where responses were only kept in electronic form. Thermal faxes are also found during the 1980's and 1990's, frequently between media and literary agents. Acknowledgements of reader responses are frequently sent on postcards, often of works by women painters or the painting The Kongouro from New Holland by George Stubbs. Photocopies of these responses were then placed on file. Proposals for work are generally received via Greer's literary agents Aitken & Stone. Initial negotiations such as date, fee, word length and travel arrangements are conducted by the agent and then passed to Greer in batches for acceptance or dismissal. The General Correspondence series primarily contains approaches for work rejected or cancelled. Correspondence regarding projects that go ahead are generally found in other series' relating to the medium of work. Notable exceptions are for articles written for Playboy and Esquire, such as Seduction is a Four Letter Word (1973), My Mailer Problem (1971) and What Turns Women On? (1978). Folders for these publications contain extensive correspondence regarding commission, fees and copy editing. Marginalia and hand annotations are spread throughout the series. Often these take the form of instructions to Greer's secretary or literary agents, such as 'accept', 'acknowledge' or 'no fee no work'. Where correspondence should be filed is usually written on the top right corner. Directions with a 'nix' suffix (for example jacketnix, picnix, readnix) indicate that form refusals were sent (see also Greer's Home Thoughts column for the Independent 'Germaine Greer on Strangers in the Mail' 2014.0046.00287). Doodles and notes are also to be found at random throughout, including sketches, family trees for English poets and jotted notes for other projects.
The series contains hundreds of responses to The Female Eunuch from every decade since publication, however frequency of these letters peaks around 1971. These range from heartfelt gratitude, hate mail, complaints about the vocabulary and observations of errors in the text. The success of the book and Greer's subsequent prominence in the media led many women to write asking how to become involved in the women's liberation movement. The 1970's also sees correspondence regarding Greer's regular column in The Sunday Times, Greer's visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1972 including the Sydney Town Hall abortion debate and International Women's Day march, viewer responses to Greer's appearance on chat shows including the Phil Donahue Show and David Susskind Show, The Festival of Ideas debate with Norman Mailer at New York Town Hall (subsequently the subject of the documentary Town Bloody Hall), the Cambridge Union Debate with William F. Buckley and Greer's subsequent appearance on Firing Line (27 February 1973), and the two guest hosted episodes of the Dick Cavett Show on rape and abortion (viewer responses for these programs are also found in the Early Years series 2014.0044.00164 and 2014.0044.00165).
Publication of The Obstacle Race in 1980 prompted letters from or regarding women artists. Early 1980s correspondence often relates to University of Tulsa and The Tulsa Center for the Study of Women's Literature. These include letters with research students, approaches and submissions to Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and correspondence with colleagues including Charlotte Stewart, Shari Benstock and Camille Naish regarding direction and operational matters such as administration of the Ellen Moers Fellowship. Also of note are responses to the Sunday Times serialisation of Sex and Destiny, which ran with the invitation to 'join the Germaine Greer debate'. These have been flagged with the terms Sex and Destiny, The Sunday Times and the name of the particular excerpt where it can be identified - 'Better No Sex than Bad Sex', 'Sex Without Gadgets' and 'Why Women Make Bad Mothers'. The late 80's sees responses to Greer's public appeal for information regarding her Father's family and Daddy, we hardly knew you.
Publication of The Change in 1991 produced a great deal of correspondence from women sharing their experience with menopause and the medical establishment. Also found in the 1990's are responses to Greer's Home Thoughts column in The Independent and The Stump Cross Roundabout column in The Oldie on subjects such as heritage apple varieties, the 'two fingered salute' (obscene gestures) and Mother Teresa.
The General Correspondence series also contains a vast amount of correspondence in response to Greer's Country Notebook column in the Sunday Telegraph between 1999 and 2005. These include advice on where to source carbon steel knives, photographs of English Bluebells in the wild and commiserations on the death of Greer's standard poodle Margot. Also found in this period are responses to The Whole Woman, Whitefella Jump Up, Greer's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother and correspondence regarding the Cave Creek Rainforest Rehabilitation Scheme.
Alongside the offers of work and reader responses are personal correspondence with friends and colleagues, including Clive James, film producer Margaret Fink, OZ magazine editors Felix Dennis and Richard Neville and feminist and civil rights activist Florynce Kennedy. Of note are the many letters spread throughout the series written by Greer while living in Tuscany, first at Il Palazzone in 1971, then later at her house Pianelli in Cortona between 1973 and 1994. These letters are often observational and poetic, describing struggles with the Italian postal service, cooking and gardening, neighbours including Jeffrey Smart, Lyndall Passerini and Claire Sterling, and observations regarding local politics and culture in Tuscany. Greer frequently invited artists, academics and writers to use the house, including writer Nicholas Shakespeare who wrote his first novel, The Vision of Elena Silves at Pianelli.50725
Series: [2014.0042] "General correspondence received by Germaine Greer
Hear Greer: voices in the archive
No full textIn the 1990s Germaine Greer began recording her audio diaries. At the same time the author was attempting to find a suitable buyer for her archive. While the intention of the audio diaries was to record Greer’s past doings, she was also revealing a more private domestic side of her everyday life. The Germaine Greer Archive sits at the intersection of history and invention and tells the many stories of Germaine Greer, herself stating, ‘The archive will put matters right for posterity… supposing posterity should be interested’
An address to the members of the Society of Friends : commonly called Quakers : who collectively constitute the quarterly meeting of the province of Ulster /
No full textWith: The address of Thomas Greer. [S.l.] : Printed for the author, 1824.Smith I:Mode of access: Internet
Germaine Greer: Essays On a Feminist Figure
No full textGermaine Greer is one of the most enduring and influential figures of the second wave of the women’s movement. The Female Eunuch (1970) is one of second-wave feminism’s most widely recognised publications and its author has come to embody and indeed expand our understanding of second-wave feminism in a way that few others have. Yet, while Greer’s public visibility never seems to wane, her writings and her politics have failed to attract the kind of sustained critical engagement they warrant. This volume represents the first collection of essays to examine Greer, her politics, her writing, and her status as a feminist celebrity. The essays in this collection cover The Female Eunuch (1970), Greer’s public rivalry with Arianna Stassinopoulos, her time in America, her ideas and politics, and her styling as feminist fashion icon. Many essays include new insights drawn from previously unseen material in the recently launched Germaine Greer Archive at the University of Melbourne, Australia
The Greer-Bush test: on politics in STS
No full textProblem Consider this juxtaposition. On page 22 of the arts section of the UK’s Guardian newspaper on August 3rd 2009 there was an article by feminist author Germaine Greer (Greer, 2009). Greer was writing about an atheist summer camp: “One of the most popular exercises is the invisible unicorn challenge. The children are told there are two invisible unicorns who live at Camp Quest but that they cannot be seen, heard, felt or smelt, and do not leave a trace. A book about them has been handed ..
Germaine Greer to Speak at the University of Dayton
No full textNews release announces that feminist and author, Germaine Greer, will talk on The Politics of Feminism at the University of Dayton and there will be a town hall meeting after her visit to discuss her ideas
Civic education among historically marginalized youth in an urban setting: promising practices
No full textMany American citizens have remained outside of the political process and therefore have not been able to effectively advocate for the full rights, privileges and responsibilities that American citizenship makes possible. For youth from historically marginalized populations who are growing up in lower-income urban areas, the issue becomes complicated by structural and social forces that impact the community and the schools. Although education may be a vehicle to provide young people with the requisite elements for civic engagement, questions abound as to what "type" of civic education curricula and instruction may be successful amidst the complex context of low-performing schools and urban communities. This dissertation investigated a classroom and curriculum in-use to better understand the contextual factors that inhibit or advance learning in this environment. The sample class, eighth grade students at an urban middle school, was observed as they engaged in a study of the citizen's role in the public policy making process using the Center for Civic Education's Project Citizen Curriculum. Following a qualitative case study model multiple methods of data collection were employed that allowed for the students' experiences to be explored in depth. Findings from this study provide educators and policy-makers with crucial insights to: curriculum materials and teaching strategies that the students related well to; promising practices to increase student performance; and a greater understanding of the students' knowledge and skills beyond what standardized test scores can reveal. The findings also challenge traditional notions of citizenship education and consider practices that may have specific relevance to historically marginalized populations.Ed.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes abstractby Greer C. Burrough
ANNOTATED REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/70349This series comprises 4 boxes holding publications used by Germaine Greer for research and reference purposes throughout her career as a student, academic and writer and publications of significance to her, including volumes given to her by their authors. The physical collection, with the addition of 5 estrays in December 2017, consists of 47 individual items, comprising 40 paperback books, 6 hardcover books and 1 magazine, 1971 Life magazine article about Greer, with publication dates of 1906, 1953 to 2011. Of the 47 items, 33 items contain marginalia, annotations, underlining, and/or inscriptions or letters to Greer by the publication author(s). There are three items in languages other than English (French and Italian).
The series contains books that were significant to Greer in researching and writing The Female Eunuch. Selected books include: a proof copy of Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex (1970); Norman O. Brown’s Life Against Death (1968) and Love’s Body (1966); Mary Ellman, Thinking About Women (1969); Erna Wright, Periods without Pain (1966); and a heavily annotated copy of Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost (1966); Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving (1969); Norman Mailer, Cannibals/Christians (1966). The series also contains volumes of poetry by women poets, including Fran Landesman, Lucy M. Boston, Anne McCosker, Susan Premru, Shelly Geiser, U. A. Fanthorpe, Ann Lauterbach and Heather Brett. In addition, the series contains two items that Greer has identified as textbooks, namely: Robert Frost’s Selected Poems (1955); and John Dryden’s The Poems and Prose of John Dryden (1955). A 1906 edition of Bell's Miniature Series of Painters on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with a University of Melbourne Library bookplate, is also held.
This series was part of a subsequent accession of the Greer Archive which was transferred to the University of Melbourne Archives by Greer in 2016, supplementing the first accession of the Archive in 2014. The books were received packed together and no clear original order was discernible. The items have been rehoused into 4 archival boxes (3 T1 size and one oversize phase box), with their arrangement determined to best physically house and protect the books and interleavings. Five additional volumes transferred in the first accession were added to this series in December 2017.
The publications are generally in good physical condition. Some items are fragile and all items have been rehoused into mylar sleeves, acid free bags or acid free folders as appropriate to aid preservation. Many items were received with an accompanying yellow sticky note with handwritten text by Greer, identifying the item and indicating the significance of the work to Greer. These sticky notes have been attached to acid free archival bookmarks, interleaved within the publications.
Basic bibliographic metadata was recorded, including: document type; author; date; publishing location; publisher; physical description; and ISBN, if available. Items were cross-checked against bibliographic listings on OCLC WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/). Works can also be searched for using the consistent subject headings tagged to each item.
The inscriptions and letters that accompany the publications have been noted in the item descriptions and shed insight into the personal and social significance of Greer’s work, while revealing the nature and impact of her celebrity. A letter written by Fran Landesman to Greer (interleaved within her poetry book, Songs Without Music, Item 2016.0137.00024) reflects on her experience of reading The Female Eunuch, revealing painful self-insight: “Too late for me…I wonder how I would have been”. Describing herself as “one more female eunuch”, Landesman closes with the hopeful refrain that one day she may meet “some of the post-Greer girls”.
Other notable letters discuss Greer’s celebrity and public appearances. Sue Kedgley, author of The Sexual Wilderness: Men and Women in New Zealand (Item 2016.0137.00041) refers to Greer’s “infamous” New Zealand visit (in which Greer was arrested in Auckland on obscene language charges for saying the words “bullshit” and “fuck”). Kedgley discusses the impact of this visit on the New Zealand public, arguing that it was greater than that of Greer’s Australian visit - views which are further explored in the individual stories contained within The Sexual Wilderness. Another letter from Bob Holt, author of From Ingleburn to Aitape: The Trials and Tribulations of a Four Figure Man (Item: 2016.0137.00010), praises Greer’s appearance on 2GB radio station, contrasting her with the “Right Wing, neo Fascist, Bible Bashers usually heard on the radio”.194322
Series: [2016.0137] "ANNOTATED REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
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