Critical Reception
In January 1972 The Age's reviewer Thelma Forshaw described The Female Eunuch as "the orchestrated over-the-back-fence grizzle ... based on the curious fancy ... we were all men, and then some fiend castrated half of us and gave us a ghastly internal bookie's bag called a womb". The newspaper declared that the review "has stirred up a considerable controversy". According to Keith Dunstan in the book, The Best Australian Profiles (2004), "he reviews of were extremely mixed. The most famous was by of The Age". Dunstan contrasted this with a positive review by Sylvia Lawson of The Australian, " been greeted in Australia with some fantastically myopic, complacent and resentful printed comment ... is neither dogmatic nor complacent, neither strident nor paranoic ... ranging, exploratory and questioning".
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