Foreign correspondence: journalism in the Germaine Greer Archive

  • Rachel Buchanan Curator Germaine Greer Archive, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Keywords: Germaine Greer, journalism, recordkeeper, newspaper history, appraisal

Abstract

Germaine Greer’s print journalism forms a significant portion of her archive. It needs to be reassessed and recognised as having equal value to her other types of writing. Greer’s journalism powers much of this major archive and it is important to acknowledge that this archive is as much a journalist’s one as it is the archive of a feminist, a performer or a literary scholar. Greer’s own methodical creation and re-creation of her print journalism legacy into a series of records in the Greer Archive is also an implicit argument for the value of her ‘smalls’. As a recordkeeper, she has gathered up ‘the madwoman’s underclothes’, the hundreds of articles published around the world.

Published
2018-03-06
How to Cite
Buchanan R. (2018) “Foreign correspondence: journalism in the Germaine Greer Archive”, Archives & Manuscripts, 46(1), pp. 18–39. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1434673.
Section
Articles