Backlash (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Faludi
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Current Affairs
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: 1980’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Popular culture, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Mass media, Television or television broadcasting, Women’s movement, Fundamentalism
In BACKLASH Susan Faludi establishes herself as one of the strongest voices of the American feminist movement by revealing the depth, danger, inconsistencies, and ironies of the strong anti-feminist sentiment that has resurged since the 1970’s and most noticeably in the conservative/reactionary 1980’s in response to women’s advances. Faludi deconstructs some of the most popular backlash myths which gained national attention on the front pages of our most respected newspapers and magazines: The myths of the “man-shortage,” the “infertility epidemic,” and “the great female...
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