Backlash (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Faludi
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- 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
Form and Content
Susan Faludi’s landmark feminist work, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, was published just after the close of the 1980’s, a decade during which, the author posits, efforts were made to undermine the gains made by women during the 1970’s. Faludi examines several areas of popular culture and documents the dramatic shift that occurred in the presentation of issues dealing with women and the women’s liberation movement. She then traces this shift in attitude to those individuals and institutions that she believes helped to shape...
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