![]() ![]() she is not entitled to remain in close contact with it and must mourn its loss. ![]() If she bears no child, she is disappointed if she bears a child. If she is mated and left, she remains forlorn. The woman who is never mated must grieve. to be found attractive by others whose responses she cannot dictate. This is a woman's life today, according to Greer: "Her duty is. In her new book, The Whole Woman, she tries to blend all women's lives into one shared experience of sorrow and unrequited love. Germaine Greer, who I believe helped to spring open that cage of femininity in her first book, The Female Eunuch, is now refusing to acknowledge the differences among women. In this era the only feminism that makes sense to me is one that acknowledges the differences between women, and yet still encourages women to work together to forge a more equal society. ![]() We can see the individual woman as a leader, a mother, a rebel, an artist, and we know that any of the roles a woman takes on will change and overlap as she moves through her life. We can see that scope for individuality in public life when we look at women as different in their goals and behaviour as Mo Mowlam and Doreen Lawrence and Tracey Emin and Antonia Byatt. In releasing women in the West from the gilded cage of Victorian femininity, feminism revealed a range of behaviours that can be dazzling in their scope. One of the greatest lessons that feminism has taught us is how varied women are. ![]()
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