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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Faludi, Susan

Paperback

General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 0307345424
ISBN13: 9780307345424
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: Aug 15 2006
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true.--Newsday

First published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women's advances. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the costs of women's independence--from the supposed man shortage to the infertility epidemic to career burnout to toxic day care--and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture.

As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list gender equality among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women's freedoms are still so demonized and threatened--and urges us to choose a different future.

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