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Anne E Faludi takes on the 80s, decade of big hair, bad music, and, she claims, a new kind of backlash against feminism. Her thesis is that pop-culture of the 80s told Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Susan Faludi. Virginia S. Fink. Virginia S. Fink. Search for more articles by this author · PDF. Faludi, Susan. Backlash: the underclared war against American women/by Susan Faludi.

Susan faludi backlash summary

Faludi’s central premise, simply stated, is that feminists and the women’s liberation movement have become popular scapegoats for those who oppose their goals. 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 Susan Faludi, Blame It on Feminism Susan Faludi, "Blame It on Feminism" Introduction to Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Doubleday, 1991) CHAPTER ONE To be a woman in America at the close of the 20th centuryñ what good fortune. That's what we keep hearing, anyway. The barricades have fallen, politicians assure us. Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women. Faludi asserted that many who argue "a woman's place is in the home, looking after the kids" are hypocrites, since they have wives who are working mothers or, as women, they are themselves working mothers.

That's what we keep hearing, anyway. The barricades have fallen, politicians assure us.

GUDINNOR, HOROR, HUSTRUR OCH SLAVAR I ANTIKENS

Backlash The backlash remarkets old myths about women as new facts and ignores all appeals to reason. Cornered, it denies its own existence, points an accusatory finger at feminism, and burrows deeper underground. Backlash” ― Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Women's rights are once more under attack, and the rallying cry of the attackers is that women today suffer from too much freedom, too much feminism, too much equality. Backlash reveals how the facts tell a far different story, and why a revival of the feminist movement is needed in the '90s.

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Backlash was published to world-wide acclaim in 1992.
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The Undeclared War Against American Women provoked discussions amongst literary critics in Sweden.