My Mailer Problem
Germaine Greer's Esquire account of 'A Dialogue on Women's Liberation' from a participant's view; the cover parodied Mailer as King Kong holding Greer as Fay Wray. Esquire later apologized for its treatment of Mailer.
“My Mailer Problem,” an article by Germaine Greer in Esquire (September 1971), is a participant’s account of “A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation” (see 71.16), with many quotations from Mailer and a good deal of context from Greer. Mailer was parodied on the Esquire cover — designed by George Lois — as King Kong holding Greer as Fay Wray, and inside as a vampirish boxer; the magazine later apologized for its treatment of him. The article was reprinted in Harold Bloom’s Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views (1986) and in Greer’s collection The Madwoman’s Underclothes (1987). See 71.16–71.20, 71.23, 77.14, and George Lois’s Covering the Sixties (1996). This entry records a notable about-Mailer item that Lennon places within the Works register because of its centrality to the Women’s Liberation episode.
Related pages
- the Town Hall dialogue (71.16) | The Prisoner of Sex (71.20)
- Germaine Greer | Esquire
- 1971
- Norman Mailer: Devil in the Fire (71.23) | Comments in We Must March My Darlings (77.14)