| Description |
xxiii, 552 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : blame it on feminism -- 1: Myths and flashbacks -- Man shortages and barren wombs : the myths of the backlash -- Backlashes then and now -- 2: The backlash in popular culture -- The "trends" of antifeminism : the media and the backlash -- Fatal and fetal visions : the backlash in the movies -- Teen angels and unwed witches : the backlash on TV -- Dressing the dolls : the fashion backlash -- Beauty and the backlash -- 3: Origins of a reaction: backlash movers, shakers, and thinkers -- The politics of resentment : the new right's war on women -- Ms. Smith leaves Washington : the backlash in national politics -- The backlash brain trust : from neocons to neofems -- 4: Backlashings: the effects on women's minds, jobs, and bodies -- It's all in your mind : popular psychology joins the backlash -- The wages of the backlash : the toll on working women -- Reproductive rights under the backlash : the invasion of women's bodies |
| Summary |
Includes material on George Gilder, Allan Bloom, Michael Levin, Margarita Levin, Warren Farrell, Robert Bly, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Betty Friedan, and Carol Gilligan |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
|
Overseas item |
|
Popular culture |
|
Psychology |
|
United States |
|
Women |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-542) and index |
|
Includes index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
|
National Book Critics Circle Award 1991 |
| Subject |
Anti-feminism -- United States.
|
|
Feminism -- United States.
|
|
Women -- Psychology.
|
|
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
|
|
Social Conditions.
|
|
Women -- psychology.
|
|
Women.
|
|
Women's Rights.
|
|
nők -- társadalmi helyzet -- Egyesült Államok |
| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
|
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Faludi, Susan.
Backlash the undeclared war against women
|
| LC no. |
90029172 |
| ISBN |
0517576988 |
|
