Germaine Greer, celebrity feminism and the archive / Anthea Taylor.

Introduction : 'for their sake I must keep at it' : celebrity and Greer's audiences -- 'The archive will put matters right, for posterity' : Greer as curator -- 'You are the twentieth century messiah! : blockbuster fan mail -- 'The best thing to happen to night-time television' : consuming the televisual Greer -- 'Greer has done it again!' : Feminist journalism and letters to the editor -- 'Miss Greer is the most pathetic eunuch of all : anti-fandom in Mccall's magazine -- 'Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will ever be' : nationalistic misogyny and the Irwin hate mail.

"Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and The Archive focuses on one of the world's most famous feminists, using previously unexplored archival material to demonstrate the impact of Greer's celebrity feminism on readers and viewers since the 1970s. In the first book to critically reflect upon this provocative figure, Anthea Taylor emphasises that Greer-as-celebrity has always elicited complex affective responses from audiences. Taylor's engaging examination of Greer's archived letters, from fans, anti-fans, and those between these two extremes, reveals much about the social and political function of celebrity over time. Through a detailed analysis of this vast archived correspondence, this volume shows how and why viewers and readers have come to affectively invest - or disinvest - in this iconoclastic feminist. Advancing debates in celebrity and fan studies, and archival and gender studies, Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and The Archive is an important resource to scholars in Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology"-- Provided by publisher.