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Backlash

By Susan Faludi

Backlash Media & Communication

Backlash

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A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • "Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true."-Newsday First published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women's advances. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the "costs" of women's independence-from the supposed "man shortage" to the "infertility epidemic" to "career burnout" to "toxic day care"-and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list "gender equality" among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women's freedoms are still so demonized and threatened-and urges us to choose a different future.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
15
Number of Pages:
610
Release Date:
2006-08-15
Publication Date:
2006-08-15
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307345424
ISBN13:
9780307345424
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
766 g
Height:
144 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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