Australian born author Germaine Greer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century, brings her latest talk titled Women for Life on Earth to the Connaught Studio in Worthing on Thursday 11th May.
This event gives an opportunity for audience members to meet, question and get the inside story from international feminist Germaine Greer, who with over four decades of experience is highly regarded in the academic world, having had positions at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge.
As a writer Germaine has created controversy ever since her first book ‘The Female Eunuch’ was released in 1970, which became an international best-seller and made her a household name. In this she offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women are forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfil male fantasies of what being a women entails. Her later works have focused on literature, feminism and the environment. She also owns Stump Cross Books, which publishes the work of 17th and 18th century women poets.
Germaine Greer Says “When Welsh women turned up at the RAF base at Greenham Common in 1981, they were carrying a banner that read ‘Women for Life on Earth’. Theirs was direct action, born of gut reaction, virtually innocent of theoretical framework. Feminists can be found wherever the planet and our fellow earthlings are in trouble. They shepherd stranded cetaceans back into deeper water, stand in front of lorries carrying live animals to slaughter, lash themselves to conveyor belts in protest against the logging of old-growth forests, march and lobby against the threat of fracking. If the planet is to survive and human beings continue to inhabit it, this female energy must be unleashed.”
For booking enquiries call the Worthing Theatres box office on 01903 206 206 or visit worthingtheatres.co.uk.
