SOURCE: “The Romantic Climacteric,” in The New Yorker, November 2, 1992, pp. 106-12.

In the following review, Pollitt provides analysis of The Change and commends Greer's provocative observations and intelligence, though finds fault in the book's disjointed and one-sided arguments.

It seems only yesterday that Germaine Greer was exhorting young women to throw away their inhibitions, their engagement rings, and their underpants. With the publication of The Female Eunuch, in 1970, Greer burst into international celebrity—an inescapable media presence, brash, brilliant, and beautiful, as exotically plumed as some wild Australian bird, and equally given to preening. Her love affairs were legendary, her admonitions—Flaunt your tampons! Taste your menstrual blood! Stop expecting men to take care of you! Live!—a heady mixture of rebellion and flirtatiousness. While the press, then as now, delighted to portray the women's movement as motivated by hatred of men and led by frumps and neurotics...