Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive [Hardcover]

Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive? focuses on one of the worlds most famous feminists, using previously unexplored archival material to demonstrate the impact of Greers celebrity feminism. It?is an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Introduction: For their sake I must keep at it: Celebrity, audiences, and archived letters  1. The archive will put matters right, for posterity: Greers Curatorial Labour  2. 'You are the twentieth century messiah!': Blockbuster Fan Mail  3. The best thing to happen to night-time television: Consuming the Televisual Greer  4. Greer has done it again!: Reader-writers and Feminist Journalism  5. Miss Greer is the most pathetic eunuch of all': Anti-fandom in McCalls Magazine  6. Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be: Nationalistic Misogyny and the Irwin Hate Mail   Conclusion: Messages in a bottle: Reframing Greers Legacy

Germaine Greer is one of the worlds most famous celebrity feminists, a fact confirmed by her voluminous archive of reader (and viewer) correspondence. Following her lengthy immersion in this extraordinary archive, Anthea Taylor has emerged with a rich and insightful account of the relationship between Greer and her many audiences.'

Michelle Arrow, author of The Seventies: The Personal, The Political and the Making of Modern Australia, Macquarie University

Using previously unavailable archival materials, Anthea Taylors groundbreaking study explores the complex relationships between feminism, celebrity and the public through an insightful and carefully nuanced analysis of the close management of those relationships&nlã-