Jan 6, 2010

Backlash | Backlash

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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Backlash | Backlash

At a glance:

Form and Content

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