Germaine Greer, Bee Rowlatt | Beyond the Female Eunuch | Jaipur Literature Festival

Beyond the Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer & Bee Rowlatt

Germaine Greer is a writer, academic and critic who is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of our time. Her first book, The Female Eunuch, was published in 1969 and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement. Greer has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA. She makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster, journalist, columnist and reviewer.
Awards: Doctor of Letters from York University (1999), Doctor of Laws from the University of Melbourne (2003) and a Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney (2005).
Popular Books: Sex and Destiny, The Change, The Whole Woman and Shakespeare's Wife

Bee Rowlatt’s In Search of Mary was a “biography of the year” (Independent). She co-wrote the best-selling Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad and features in Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism. Rowlatt’s done festivals in Russia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Iraq, Colombia and the UK but her heart belongs to Jaipur! She began in BBC World Service and has written for national and international media. Rowlatt chairs the Mary Wollstonecraft campaign.
Awards: K Blundell Trust Award
Bestselling/ popular Books: In Search of Mary, Talking about Jane Austen

Beyond the Female Eunuch
In 1970, Germaine Greer published The Female Eunuch, an immediate worldwide bestseller that remains a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Since then, Greer has published a succession of hard-hitting, often hotly debated and continually surprising books, most recently On Rape, in which she controversially argues that it's time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape – as inflicted by men on women – have, she writes, got us nowhere. Rape statistics remain intractable: one woman in five will experience sexual violence. Very few rapes find their way into court. The crucial issue is consent, thought by some to be easy to establish and by others, impossible. Sexual assault does not diminish; relations between the sexes do not improve; litigation balloons. Greer argues there has to be a better way.
Presented by Women Uninterrupted Series

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The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

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Links to the other session by Germaine Greer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40iH93L8gkc&t=48s
Links to the other session by Bee Rowlatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40iH93L8gkc&t=48s

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