A controversial feminist and intellect, Germaine Greer is well-known for her publications and compelling arguments towards feminism. Greer earned a bachelor’s degree in English and French Literature and Language at the University of Melbourne, and later received her master’s degree in Romantic Poetry from the University of Sydney. In Greer’s piece “Masculinity,” a chapter from her 1999 publication, “The Whole Woman,” she calls upon the audience of young women and encourages them to challenge their traditional roles in society against men. Greer’s most prominent argument in this chapter stated that masculinity is a social construct rather than a biological component. She believed that masculinity was not in fact woven into DNA, but culturally determined by an individuals’ upbringing. After reading Greer’s work and understanding the success she has attained through her work, it becomes obvious that parental involvement and societal pressure all play a role in masculinity.…show more content… David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health had been studying individuals with Turner’s syndrome, a condition in which a baby is born with only the X chromosome, in an attempt to prove that masculinity was genetic. Greer writes, “The researchers found that the single-X “girls” displayed masculine characteristics in that they were insensitive, demanding and obtuse. The researchers explained this as a lack of the feminine traits of institution and sociability, on which girls usually score higher than boys, the inference being that these were carried in the second X.” (Jacobus 729) Greer doubted the observations made by the researchers and believed that the girls found to be insensitive and demanding most likely learned those traits during their