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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.420973
EAN: 9780307345424
Edition: 15 Anv
ISBN: 0307345424
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: August 15, 2006
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Editorial Review:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author that brings backlash consciousness up to date. When it was first published, Backlash made headlines for puncturing such favorite media myths as the “infertility epidemic” and the “man shortage,” myths that defied statistical realities. These willfully fictitious media campaigns added up to an antifeminist backlash. Whatever progress feminism has recently made, Faludi’s words today seem prophetic. The media still love stories about stay-at-home moms and the “dangers” of women’s career ambitions; the glass ceiling is still low; women are still punished for wanting to succeed; basic reproductive rights are still hanging by a thread. The backlash clearly exists.With passion and precision, Faludi shows in her new preface how the creators of commercial culture distort feminist concepts to sell products while selling women downstream, how the feminist ethic of economic independence is twisted into the consumer ethic of buying power, and how the feminist quest for self-determination is warped into a self-centered quest for self-improvement. Backlash is a classic of feminism, an alarm bell for women of every generation, reminding us of the dangers that we still face.
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Rating:  - A woman sick of feminist nonsense
Like most feminists, she presumes to speak for all women and to know what is best for us even when many of us differ. I guess since I didn't go to Harvard I'm not smart enough to know that equality of the type she favors would lead to a miserable marriage and life. Homemaking and motherhood give meaning and joy to most women. Taking care of and pampering a husband and children is the most pleasurable part of a woman's life. She conveniently ignores studies that indicate relationships are were women ... Read More
Rating:  - Not what it's cracked up to be
Susan Faludi's "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women" clearly doesn't live up to its title. Despite its reputation, it is rife with obvious instances of cherry picking and the omission of well-known facts that would undermine the case she is trying to make. For example, she paints Republican administrations as being totally antithetical to the ambitions of women but omits any mention of Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court or the fact that the first Bush administration ... Read More
Rating:  - A more likeable Elizabeth Wurtzel?
I found this book interesting and well written, but maybe a bit over the top. Listening to Ms. Faludi's recent interview on [...], she's an intelligent and likeable person. She's also not afraid to tell you what she thinks...for a good 500 pages. This is an apparently well researched book, but not being a scholar of feminism, I can't place it in its proper historical context. She seems to be trying to get a reaction out of people, however, with a bit of shock value, and I thought a journalist wasn't supposed ... Read More
Rating: - Victimology + Misandry + Creative Statistics = Faludi
There will come a day I am sure, when all the Pulitzer Prizes awarded to female writers in the 1980s and 1990s will be scrutinized, and withdrawn from the talentless who got them merely on the grounds of a favourable political climate. Anyone who has seen this sorry individual in the flesh, or at least on TV, will know she is one of the worst possible representatives of the female cause, if not the human race. She paints a unique view of reality as seen through her feminist-coloured spectacles, which, as they ... Read More
Rating: - Most Important
This critical, detailed analysis of our culture reveals the way women are oppressed. T.V., books, and magazines represent the sexist ideas that still exist in some individuals minds and reinforce them. Politicians, media gurus, and celebrities also represent some sexist ideas. Read this book to learn them all.
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