Her latest book, The Whole Woman, is the sequel to The Female Eunuch, and the book that Greer claimed she would never write. However, Greer was also criticised for her book's somewhat elitist, sneering attitude towards those women who still hadn't "made it" and continued to live in conventional relationships. Its call-for an aggressive, adventurous, exploring, unconventional and uncompromising female sexual practice-mirrored the sexual revolution that was intimately linked to the youth radicalisation of the 1960s and the emerging women's liberation movement in the West. Exemplifying Greer's libertarian views on sexuality, the book had a big impact on young feminists at the time. Germaine Greer, one of the better known Western personalities of this generation, made a big splash with the publication of her book The Female Eunuch almost thirty years ago. The generation that challenged women (and men) to "think clitoris"-the "second wave" of feminists of the 1970s-are today's older generation of feminists.
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