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‘If women can see no future apart from joining masculine elite on its own terms, our civilization will become more destructive than ever’.
Slipshod Sybils - Recognition, Rejection and the Woman poet, (Viking) is the 1995 work of Australian writer Germaine Greer. 500 pages including notes.
University of Sydney - "Perhaps no other Sydney University graduate – male or female – has more pervasively and persuasively influenced lives in the western world through the sheer dissonant power of dissenting ideas."
Maiia: This is not Greer's only exploration of women's cultural practise, 1979 produced... The Obstacle Race - The Fortunes of Women painters and Their World - "It is a book that explains, better than any I have ever read, the psychological, economic and even aesthetic reasons for the virtually unchallenged patriarchalism of all our artistic establishments. Erica Jong' - Powells Books
Why is there no female Henry lawson? No female Da Vinci? - and let's see if it's changed any in the last hundred years Slipshod Sybils...
"The literary woman might meet with a certin success, but only as long as she was a novelty and excited wonder. " - lol and tradgedy was popular, la- Janis Joplin
"Hundreds of good women poets now travel the length and bredth of our world, performing their work with wit and style. Their work doesn't always vibrate at the highest frequency; they have other subjects besides themselves; they do not see themselves as outcast and solitray or unique in their capacity to be miserable. Because they fail to flay themselves alive they will be called minor, and forgotten as all but two or three of Squire's comtemporary poets have been forgotten, until such time as we come to prefer our poets of all sexes with the skin on"
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