The Whole Woman

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by Germaine Greer

Bantam Doubleday Dell

Due/Published August 2000, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 0385720033

New in paper (F00)

Greer reveals how women have been sideswiped and sidetracked in the quest for liberation, duped into settling for an ersatz equality. She argues that women have come a long way in the past three decades, but that innumerable forms of insidious discrimination and exploitation persist in every area of life--from the care of the body to the care of the household, from the workplace to the marketplace. And, as she suggests, the oft-repeated claim that "women can have it all" is merely a pacifying illusion--that things are getting worse, and that action is necessary now.