(1939– )
an Australian writer, broadcaster and professor of English who has lived mainly in Britain since the 1960s. She became internationally famous as a feminist (= a person who believes strongly that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men) after writing The Female Eunuch (1970), one of the most popular books of the period about the position of women in society. She has written several other books about sexual politics, art history and Shakespeare and an autobiographical memoir of her father, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1990).