Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the mid-twentieth century. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967. She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991); The Whole Woman (1999) and Shakespeare’s Wife (2007).