Backlash : the undeclared war against American women /
by Susan Faludi.
- First Anchor Books edition.
- xxiii, 552 pages ; 21 cm.
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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Anti-feminism--United States. Feminism--United States. Feminism--Public opinion.--United States Public opinion--United States. Women--Social conditions.--United States Women--Psychology. Public Opinion. Social Conditions--United States. Women--psychology. Women's Rights--United States.