Learn how the controversial writer and academic overturned a lot of the world’s thinking on feminism. Specifically, learn how self-belief played a role in her life and how this thread runs through every icon we meet in the groundbreaking series.
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► About Prof. Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer is one of the twentieth century’s most influential feminists. The controversial writer and academic overturned a lot of the world’s thinking on feminism when, in 1970, she published her international best-seller, The Female Eunuch. Since then, she’s published other books; co-presented TV series; written for newspapers; and lectured at Cambridge University. She’s continually challenged the status quo through her flamboyant writing and intellectually-charged media appearances. Few Australians have polarised and provoked public opinion as much.
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► Background to the Episode
After tracking down the legendary adventurer, Alby Mangels, we found ourselves back over the border at Melbourne University to meet with Germaine. She had just sold the University the rights to her lifetime archive for over a million dollars, which she donated to Australian rainforest rehabilitation. The leafy campus was the perfect setting to unpack the thinkings of one of the country’s best-known scholars.
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► About The Thread
Two mates sit down with 10 iconic Australians to figure out how they broke away from the pack. Hugh and Jack seek out leaders of wide-ranging fields: adventure, sport, business, philanthropy, medicine, law and literature to uncover the common thread that binds them.
The interview subjects are household names famed for remarkable and well-told stories, but rarely have they been asked how they did it, how they define success and whether anyone can do what they've done.
Armed with meticulous research and uncomfortably simple questions, we elicit intriguing, inspiring and often unexpected insights from an eclectic bunch of trailblazers.
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► Questions we Ask Prof. Germaine Greer
1. 2:11 Germaine we've interviewed a judge, a doctor, sportspeople, businesspeople. How would we categorise your career?
2. 2:20 And not an academic nor an activist?
3. 2:38 We've read that you had very little support from your family at a young age. Did unsupportive parents hinder you?
4. 3:45 What led you to pursue an academic career?
5. 4:09 And you felt like there weren't other options?
6. 6:14 What role has luck played in your career?
7. 6:34 Now, I have a ruler here which I'm going to give you and at this end is the year 1970 and the world that was and my question to you is, how far have we moved in the direction of your feminist ideals?
8. 9:20 How do you expect women to go against the grain of the patriarchal business community and society and still get ahead?
9. 10:07 What's your definition of failure?
10. 10:35 So what advice would you give your younger self?
11. 12:15 Have you ever been the victim of tall poppy syndrome?
12. 12:40 What about those people who work hard without achieving their goals?
13. 13:19 How independent do you have to be to be the best at what it is you do?
14. 14:14 How did you maintain your self-belief when your work was getting criticised and harshly criticised?
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