The Female Eunuch

by Germaine Greer

A timeless classic, published in 1970, but also a book for its time. The 1960s are seen as a decade of social liberation of all kinds, but women still had plenty to complain about by the end of the decade (the Equal Pay Act only came into law in the UK in the year of publication). Greer does that complaining with humour, outrageousness and anger. Her thesis is that the suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually.  The book became a key text in the feminist movement of the 1970s.