Full Description
Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive, the first scholarly book on this internationally renowned feminist, draws upon Greer's largely unexplored archive to demonstrate her impact on readers and viewers since the 1970s.
Across many decades in the limelight and through multiple media forms, the provocative Greer has worked to shape audience understandings of gender, sexuality, and feminism. Through deep engagement with archival material, Anthea Taylor offers a compelling reassessment of Greer's celebrity feminist labour and its effects over time. Examining archived letters from fans, anti-fans, and those in between, this innovative volume shows how and why readers and viewers have come to affectively invest - or disinvest - in this iconoclastic feminist.
Advancing debates about the social and political function of celebrity, Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive is essential reading for scholars in Gender Studies, History, Archival Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies.
Contents
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
