Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer courts controversy with every appearance everywhere, and yet she continues to attract invitations to events of all kinds and in many countries. A few years ago she sold her archives, 150 filing cabinets to Melbourne University for 3 million dollars, the money went to her Gondwana Rainforest Foundation. Elizabeth Kleinhenz has trawled through those archives and interrogated Professor Greer's immense personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known Greer from her school days until now and read every word written by and about her to crack the enigma - in all her glories, frustrations and contradictions. Only to conclude that with Germaine Greer, there is no mask, everything we have seen and read by her add to the challenging, vibrant, hilarious and gifted woman she is.Germaine Greer courts controversy with every appearance everywhere, and yet she continues to attract invitations to events of all kinds and in many countries. A few years ago she sold her archives, 150 filing cabinets to Melbourne University for 3 million dollars, the money went to her Gondwana Rainforest Foundation. Elizabeth Kleinhenz has trawled through those archives and interrogated Professor Greer's immense personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known Greer from her school days until now and read every word written by and about her to crack the enigma - in all her glories, frustrations and contradictions. Only to conclude that with Germaine Greer, there is no mask, everything we have seen and read by her add to the challenging, vibrant, hilarious and gifted woman she is.
Elizabeth Kleinhenz was born in Melbourne, where she has spent most of her life. She enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Victorian Education Department as a teacher and administrator of English, History and German. In 2001 she joined the Australian Council for Educational Research and recently retired from the position of senior research fellow. Elizabeth is the author of A Brimming Cup- the Life of Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MUP 2013) which was her PhD thesis.