European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Agazine passionate persuader Germain Greer by Geneva Collins associated press Ermaine of left. Whose work the female eunuch was labelled a feminist manifesto in 1969 and whose sex and destiny 5 years later was branded a in minis heresy has assembled 20 years Worth of essays to prove she s Boon advancing the same arguments All along. The eloquent Greer is often described As provocative and flamboyant in interviews which almost always mention thai she is 6 feel tall and took on the chauvinistic Norman Mailer in a Tanious 1972 debate. But in a record Slop in new York to promote to e Madwoman s underclothes essays and occasional writings $17 95. Atlantic monthly press Greer 48, looked refreshingly in Amazon. Her Long Gray hair was swept up in a victorian Bun demure pearls Al her Throat and ears softened the vivid Blue Violet of Kcf sweater dress nol that Greer has softened her ardor Al All. She is still a passionate persuader whether in person or in print. When sex and destroy came out i said to my agent i m so fed up with being told i be had this huge turnaround. I Haven to i be been saying the same thing for 20 years. I think what we re going to have to do is put together a list of my writings around these topics and Lei people see that sex and destiny is a logical what queer has been saying far the past two decades As she declares in the introduction of her new Book is that she has advocated neither promiscuity nor its institutionalized repression bul rather a less banal and commercial approach to the so called sexual revolution of the 1960s was no real improvement upon the Era of female urging a teas banal. Approach to exploitation that Enisley before it because it reduced sex to Greer recommends that to take our cues from simpler cultures where sex is used Lor procreation nol recreation and is not a game bul an integral pars of the social fabric of intensely sexual people. She was asked to define feminism. Circa 1987, i think a feminist is someone who approaches every question from the Point of View of a woman she said. Before she is a Catholic. An australian a labor Voler a properly owner a University Cachor she is a woman. And she tries Alt the Lime to understand questions from that Angle. She does t have to be an activist she can be silent she can be completely passive and that also Means though that she never Ever condescend to other women abrogates their right to speak for themselves whether they re educated or uneducated dealing with migraine pain by Brian Murphy associated presso be woman depicted it As demons banging on her Scalp. Others portrayed Ilas a jagged arc of Silver Light or a forehead impaled by a Nail. Each was a sufferer of migraine headaches and created works in a three Day exhibit of 200 paintings and drawings titled the Art of the show held last month should help migraine sufferers and others understand the torment and frustration of the attacks said or. Gilius spin nos director of the headache research foundation Al the Faulkner Hospital in Boson where the display was hold. Tho pain of a migraine is very real spin nos said after looking Al these pictures it s obvious we re not dealing with an imaginary illness " we be had people come in and look Al a painting and1 say thai s sex Andy what i feel. I never knew it was a migraine " said spin nos a neurologist who has studied headaches since 1974 the artworks Aie samples fio Mabou 900 submissions Lor Lour National compositions in Brilain held since 1981, said Derek Robinson a representative of the London based we pharmaceuticals lid. The company which produces an anti migraine drug distributed in Britain has organized More than 70 exhibitions of the show All in the United kingdom. Robinson said the Art offers More than illustrations of anguish. Many pieces give insight Inlo the manifestations of migraines and the circus lances that can trigger a lacks he said. There Are hundreds of different factors that can Lead to an alack said Robinson. Anything from Lood noise or sunlight can bring on the one painting made in hues of Gray shows a lonely woman blocked of from simple pleasures such As music and dancing. The phrase migraine Martyr is Mitten across the lop. Quite often there is a be Elm of isolation with the migraine patient said Robinson they can come Here and see that they Aie not visual distortions such As arcs of flickering Light or opaque Clouds Are also a common theme of Many paintings one Man painted a self portrait with a thick steel band encasing his head in dealing a Lich or poor never assumes n Palerno 1 Altitude toward other women so that the basis of in is so Ronly " her id Wheeling collodion of essays and Iii pics such topics As legalizing pot Var Inal deodorants abortion. Arc syndrome and Camps to drought Ptag cd or Thiol n in some of the essays a serious message is encased in a lighthearted tone As in going without in this piece which gained her no lonely when it appeared in her regular column Tor the sunday times of London. Graor announces Hal she has stopped wearing underpants alter tier Tomalo doctor asks her Why she wears them warmth1 pre Lection modesty All her rationales Lail so she puts her panties in her push ind leaves Iho doctor sol fico Leuling emancipated. Olhorn essays such As one on raped women in refugee Camps or a piece on what is now Lermond Olalo rape Are very serious eight of Iarj essays have never appealed before in print the australian born Greer. Who has lived in Britain since 1961 and holds a doctorate from Cambridge University published her earliest work in under around publications while struggling As an unpaid journalist she taught Al Warwick uni Vorsila and also worked As a to commentator she resigned her teaching Posl in the Luxor that followed Iho appearance of the female eunuch and has been a writer and lecturer fifty steadily Ever since she wrote biweekly columns Lor the sunday times irom 1971 -73, and from 1979 82 was director of the Tulsa okla Center for the study of women s literature. Those years in the american heartland she says showed her How i tie feminism has advanced beyond the coasts. Macho America still exists she said in the interview. Men still Call women by abusive names Tike Hon and Chick and love and what have you. Iii go to a bar when i m in Chicago to have a drink after a Long Day s Woik. The Man Al the bar next to me will assume that i m looking Lor a on the subject of acquired immune Delici Oncy syndrome Greer also bristled. What makes me mad is that Elizabeth Taylor will stand up and make big Ges Luies when Rock Hudson Dies but who stands up and makes a big gesture when someone like her Mother Dies of cervical cancer cervical cancer is a curable she said we know whal to do about it but we re not doing in. I la Tell you what i Don t give a Good goddamn Aboul aids but i do care about cervical cancer her next project will be a Book on her lather who died in 1983 i realized when he was dying Hal i did t know him at said Greer with it she Hopes to glean a satisfying answer to the daughter s perennial question did you love me daddy i can l Tell if he loved me or Man s Bare Skull is pierced by a giant screw that Ems Between his eyes. Another Man reconstructed shreds of paper into a grotesque screaming image. Spierings said older migraine patients often confuse the visual disturbances with symptoms of stroke since some attacks Are not accompanied by headaches. The paintings Are an important diagnostic tool said spin nos. Whose brother and 6-year old daughter suffer chronic headache pain. A patient will look at a painting and know what is happening is not life threatening studies indicate headaches afflict three of 20 people at least once a week Spierings said migraines ailed 9 percent of regular headache sufferers which Are Aboul 60 percent women he said. Migraines Are believed to be linked to extreme neurological activity in the brain he said so far. However the Best treatment is elimination of the factors that prompt attacks said spierings1 we can control it but nol cure it he said. The Faulkner headache research Cenci Ine Oidest of about six similar centers in me United states has treated More than 15,000 Pali cats since 1950. According to Hospital spokeswoman Cindy i Cotic saturday. 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