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This author selected the work of various seventeenth century female poets for her anthology Kissing the Rod. This thinker argued that the title historical figure of another work partook in a type of union called "handfasting" and commends her for marrying her daughter Susanna to the doctor John Hall. That work by this author argues against the notion that Ann Hathaway's pregnancy trapped her husband into marriage and downplays her inheritance of the "second best bed." This author of Shakespeare's Wife included a chapter on "Pantomime Dames" and drew flack for an occasionally positive portrayal of female genital mutilation in her 1999 book the whole woman, an update of her 1970 book which argued that the traditional nuclear family divorces women from their sexuality. For 10 points, name this Australian feminist, the author of The Female Eunuch.
This author selected the work of various seventeenth century female poets for her anthology Kissing the Rod.
Germaine Greer