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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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Review:
Feminist Susan Faludi writes that during the 1980s and early 1990s American culture reacted to the progress of the feminist movement with a vengeance. This "undeclared war against American woman" was exemplified by the popular idea that women had moved from having too few options to having an overabundance. From movies to the workplace, women were bombarded with the message that no matter how hard they tried, it was impossible to attain it all. Faludi argues that data on working women and motherhood in the previous decade had been purposefully skewed. In Backlash she masterfully disarms the attackers, then translates popular "facts," and lays the groundwork for the dawning of a new age of feminism.
About the Author:
A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Susan Faludi won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for explanatory journalism and the National Book Critics’ Circle award for Backlash. She is the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, which was published in 1999, and has written for many publications, including The New Yorker, The Nation, Newsweek, and the New York Times.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0517126982
- ISBN 13 9780517126981
- BindingHardcover
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