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...spends too much space describing the humiliating postures women must assume under the hands--and instruments--of insensitive male gynecologists. Most of what she says is impossible to prove, but many readers may bristle at her militant tone. One highlight of this chapter is her psychoanalysis of the fertility doctors motivations for helping sterile women...
...chapter on birth control, Greer maintains that, far from having modernized contraception to make it clean, safe, and unobtrusive, women remain dependent on outmoded, unpleasant and sometimes harmful devices. The side effects of the pill and the IUD are well-known, but Greer presses on to find fault with that most revered and safe contraceptive, the diaphragm. It's so messy, she says--and cumbersome, and inconvient. Few disagreements from the general public there. But at this point, for this embattled author, only a graphic description will suffice...
Greer winds up her arguments--in a chapter tellingly titled "The Myth of Overpopulation"--with some pretty potent conclusions. We in the West, she charges, assume that there is overpopulation in the world because most people cannot achieve our standard of living. The Malthusian argument that population will eventually outstrip resources is valid, but Greer claims that this has not yet occurred. With an uncharacteristic humbleness. She writes...
...that nothing could be done to alleviate my agony. Three weeks as an inpatient at St. Louis University's Pain Management Program taught me how to live with my pain through such methods as biofeedback, physical therapy, exercise and relaxation. I now attend biweekly meetings of the local chapter of Chronic Pain Outreach, a nonprofit support group that provides speakers who help us cope with our problems. Robert C. Lucas Brentwood...
...pseudonymous William Wharton, author of Birdy, Dad and A Midnight Clear, is himself an American painter who lived many years in Paris, so it is no surprise that his street scenes and descriptions of the painterly process are vividly authentic. His chapter on Scum's attempt to paint a self-portrait that would transport him out of the temporal dimension makes a stirring set piece. But his identification with his character is so complete that the novel seems to be spun from their shared fantasy fulfillment. Difficulties give way before Scum. Whatever he needs comes conveniently to hand, whether...