Own a classic Observer photograph from the Women's Liberation Movement march, 1971
On Saturday 6 March 1971, women from across the UK gathered in central London to join the first national demonstration by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement
November 2021
Book of the day
Growing Up by Peter Doggett review – the seamy underbelly of free love
The 60s was the decade of sexual liberation, but, as this strange yet fascinating social history reveals, darker forces were at work too
June 2021
On the Road to Bridget Jones: five books that define each generation
Blake Morrison on boomers, Chris Power on Gen X, Megan Nolan on millennials and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on Gen Z … which books shaped your generation?
February 2021
Gavin Williamson using 'misleading' research to justify campus free-speech law
Cardiff University calls on education secretary to correct the record over claim Germaine Greer was banned
January 2021
Other lives
David Larkin obituary
Other lives: Art director in the book publishing trade who was committed to nurturing new talent
December 2020
TV review
Being Bridget Jones review – a sense of humour that came to define an era
Top 10s
Top 10 Shakespearean books
March 2020
Further reading
Out of his shadow: the best books about female artists
From Celia Paul to Dora Maar to the abstract expressionists in postwar New York, Annalena McAfee on the female artists finding their way into the limelight
February 2020
Germaine Greer’s attack on Meghan Markle – so predictable, so old hat, so wrong
Barbara Ellen
The writer has done herself no favours by joining the ranks of the duchess bashers
January 2020
Books that made me
Isabel Allende: ‘The Female Eunuch confirmed I was not crazy’
The novelist on reading fairy tales as a child and the influence of Gabriel García Márquez
July 2019
Publisher accused of 'ripping off' best-selling book on racism
Ben Lindsay’s We Need To Talk About Race has similar cover and title to prizewinning book by Reni Eddo-Lodge
May 2019
‘Short of imagination’: Germaine Greer scorns Leonardo da Vinci’s art
The prolific author says the Mona Lisa looks ‘half-dead’ while speaking at Hay festival
December 2018
Book of the week
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz review – a career of controversy
This respectful biography of one of the world’s most famous living feminists embraces the criticism that all her books have provoked
November 2018
Book of the day
The Life of Germaine Greer review – an elusive firebrand
Germaine Greer’s brilliance and taste for controversy still don’t make her an easy quarry for her biographer, Elizabeth Kleinhenz
Germaine Greer predicted the suffering of women like Ashleigh Raper
Van Badham
Luke Foley has shown us that justice for women continues to be denied
Stephen Fry pronounces the death of classical liberalism: ‘We are irrelevant and outdated bystanders’
He wasn’t the only one, as the Festival of Dangerous Ideas contemplated the rapid changes in contemporary politics
October 2018
Women avoid transgender debate for fear of reaction, says Jo Brand
Writer laments vilification of Germaine Greer and infighting within feminism
September 2018
Germaine Greer on Q&A: 'Women are encouraged to be frightened' – video
The author contends on Monday night's ABC panel show that the trauma inflicted by rape is 'dictated by the sufferer'
Germaine Greer likens rape victims' trauma to her fear of spiders
‘Women are encouraged all the time to be terribly, terribly frightened,’ author tells Q&A
Reading Germaine: three generations respond to On Rape
On Rape, the new book from feminist icon and firebrand Germaine Greer, has sparked furious debate. We asked three generations of women to read and respond to it
