SOURCE: “Sex and Superstition,” in New York Review of Books, May 31, 1984, pp. 15-6, 18.

In the following negative review of Sex and Destiny, Singer finds fault with Greer's cultural relativism, inconsistencies, and “absurdities.”

Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was perhaps the most brilliant, and certainly one of the most influential, of the wave of feminist books that appeared in the early 1970s. As the title suggested, Greer pictured women as pressured into a stereotypical female role which effectively castrated them, forcing them to deny their sexuality and to see themselves as wives and mothers, ministering to the needs of others instead of being true to their own natures. It was a polemical work, but a persuasive one. It caught the mood of the times and led many women to assert their own sexuality, shattering the bonds of convention that had repressed their mothers and grandmothers.

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