Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and The Archive

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Anthea Taylor is an Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of four books in feminist cultural studies, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (2016).

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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. It is an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology.

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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. It is an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology.

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Introduction: 'For their sake I must keep at it': Celebrity, audiences, and archived letters 1. 'The archive will put matters right, for posterity': Greer's Curatorial Labour 2. 'You are the twentieth century messiah!': Blockbuster Fan Mail 3. 'The best thing to happen to night-time television': Consuming the Televisual Greer 4. 'Greer has done it again!': Reader-writers and Feminist Journalism 5. 'Miss Greer is the most pathetic eunuch of all': Anti-fandom in McCall's Magazine 6. 'Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be': Nationalistic Misogyny and the Irwin Hate Mail Conclusion: 'Messages in a bottle': Reframing Greer's Legacy