Backlash : the undeclared war against American women / by Susan Faludi.
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TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1992Edition: First Anchor Books editionDescription: xxiii, 552 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385425074
- 9780385425070
- 305.42/0973 20
- HQ 1426 F35 1991
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Originally published: New York : Crown, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-542) and index.
Introduction : blame it on feminism -- Man shortages and barren wombs : the myths of the backlash -- Backlashes then and now -- The "trends" of antifeminism : the media and the backlash -- Fatal and fetal visions : the backlash in the movies -- Teen angels and unwed witches : the backlash on TV -- Dressing the dolls : the fashion backlash -- Beauty and the backlash -- The politics of resentment : the new right's war on women -- Ms. Smith leaves Washington : the backlash in national politics -- The backlash brain trust : from neocons to neofems -- It's all in your mind : popular psychology joins the backlash -- The wages of the backlash : the toll on working women -- Reproductive rights under the backlash : the invasion of women's bodies.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique."--Newsweek.
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