走進劍橋大學第30期:女權主義者的聲音

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Germaine Greer

女權主義者的聲音

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.

杰曼格里爾，出生在澳大利亞，她既是作家、學者和記者，也是早期現代英國文學的著名學者，并被廣泛認為是20世紀后半葉最杰出的女權主義運動家之一。

Germaine Greer spent her formative years in an all-girl Catholic Academy, Then she was educated at Melbourne and Sydney Universities in Australia and in 1964 she left to England where she studied at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1968 she received her Ph.D. and accepted a lectureship in English at the University of Warwick in Coventry. The same year, in London, she married Australian journalist Paul du Feu, but the marriage lasted only three weeks, during which, as she later admitted, Greer was unfaithful several times.

她在一所天主教女校里度過了成長時期。之后，她曾在澳大利亞的墨爾本和悉尼大學求學，1964年前往劍橋大學紐納姆學院深造。1968年，她順利拿到了博士學位，并獲得了一個考文垂華威大學的講師職位。同年，她與澳大利亞記者保羅在倫敦結婚，但這場婚姻只持續了3周，此后她承認，在這3周時間里，她曾經紅杏出墻過幾次。

With the publication of The Female Eunuch, she became a highly influential figure in the sexual liberationist and feminist movements. The Female Eunuch explores the idea of continual female oppression arguing that society seeks to impose certain norms onto women's expected behavior. In the book Germaine argues it is time for women to get angry again and pursue greater independence away from the social pressures that exist The book relates women's sexual passivity of the day with that of a castrate, essentially sexless and it also turns her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. Greer resigned her post at Warwick University in 1972 after travelling the world to promote her book. The media saw Germaine Greer as the high priestess of “women's lib” and her book as its bible. During the seventies, Greer remained in the public eye，encouraging women to seek out their own sexuality. In her sixties, Greer has published another book, The Whole Woman, Greer certainly does not avoid confrontation, she once said: “The more people we annoy, the more we know we，re doing it right?”

隨著《女太監》的出版，她成為在女性解放和婦女運動中一個十分有影響力的人物。《女太監》指出當前婦女在社會中仍然飽受壓迫，社會總是想把一定的行為準則強加于女性。格里爾認為女性應該再次憤怒起來，去追求社會重壓之外的更大程度的獨立性。這本書把當時婦女在性方面的被動性與閹割聯系在一起，使她的名字家喻戶曉，也給她帶來了不少贊譽和批評。1972年，在前往世界各地對新書進行宣傳后，格里爾辭去了華威大學的職位。媒體把杰曼格里爾譽為婦女解放運動的祭司，她的書就是整個運動的圣經。60多歲的時候，格里爾出版另一本書，名為《完整的女人》。格里爾從不回避爭議，她曾經說過：“被我們惹惱的人越多，就更說明了我們行為的合理性。”

Greer had attracted controversy in the Southern Hemisphere before. In 1972 she was fined in New Zealand $40 for offensive language. The incident surrounded a speech she gave attacking anti-abortion campaigners at Auckland's Town Hall, She was arrested for swearing during the speech.

她曾經在南半球遭到了反對。1972年她在新西蘭演講的時候因為“不雅之辭”被罰款40美金。這件事與她在奧克蘭市政廳發表攻擊反墮胎組織的言論有關。之后，她又因為在演講中說臟話而被逮捕。

She has ever posed nude for the underground London magazine Oz on the understanding that the male editors would do likewise, but they did not.

她還曾為倫敦的地鐵雜志《奧茲》做過裸體模特。她認為男性編輯也會這么做，但他們沒有。

Greer is now retired but retains her position as Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry. She has defined her goal as “women's liberation” as distinct from “equality with men”，

格里爾現在已經退休了，但仍在華威大學的英語文學和比較研究中心保留名譽教授的職位。她曾說過，自己的目標是“女性的解放”，這和“與男性平等”明顯不同。