Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive

By: Anthea Taylor

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Paperback | 29 November 2024

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Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and The Archive focuses on one of the world's most famous feminists, using previously unexplored archival material to demonstrate the impact of Greer's celebrity feminism on readers and viewers since the 1970s.

In the first book to critically reflect upon this provocative figure, Anthea Taylor emphasises that Greer-as-celebrity has always elicited complex affective responses from audiences. Taylor's engaging examination of Greer's archived letters, from fans, anti-fans, and those between these two extremes, reveals much about the social and political function of celebrity over time. Through a detailed analysis of this vast archived correspondence, this volume shows how and why viewers and readers have come to affectively invest - or disinvest - in this iconoclastic feminist.

Advancing debates in celebrity and fan studies, and archival and gender studies, Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and The Archive will be an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology.

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'Germaine Greer is one of the world's 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.'

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

'Using previously unavailable archival materials, Anthea Taylor's 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 by that most public of celebrity feminists, Germaine Greer.'

Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner, author of Understanding Celebrity, University of Queensland

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