The Beautiful Boy is a book by radical feminist academic Germaine Greer, published in 2003 as The Boy in the Commonwealth by Thames & Hudson and in the rest of the world by Rizzoli. Its avowed intention was "to advance women's reclamation of their capacity for and right to visual pleasure". The book is a study of the youthful male face and form, from antiquity to the present day, from paintings and drawings to statuary and photographs.
Cover of The Beautiful Boy, showing Björn Andrésen in 1970 by David Bailey (international edition)
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
Greer at the University of Melbourne in 2013
Elwood beach. The skyline of the Melbourne city centre is visible in the distance.
The Old Arts building, University of Melbourne
Royal George Hotel, Sydney, 2010