Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

The author of "The Female Eunuch" examines parent-child relationships in the West, Middle East, India, and Africa and explores the possibility that Western culture hates its children and takes little pleasure from family life. Germaine Greer leads the reader to ask some deep and disturbing questions, challenging the ideals of the nuclear family. Ingenious, knowledgeable and authoritative, threatened by personal anecdote, this is Germaine Greer's most important book. And, for dealing with one of the most vital issues that the world and its population face, it is destined to be one of the most controversial books of the eighties.