Germaine Greer remains amongst the leading opinion-formers of our age, her challenging views constantly provoking us in print and on the small screen. The Female Eunich, her first book, was published in 1970, to be hailed as 'one of the most eloquent pieces of anarchist propoganda that have appeared this century'. This frank and moving biography puts into context the unhappy childhood, the convent schooling and promiscuous but rigorous university years that shaped Greer's personality. This is the first-ever biography of the woman who shaped modern feminism.