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Backlash
by Faludi Susan
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Editions des Femmes (1993-07-06)
ISBN: 2721004484
EAN: 9782721004482
Dewy Decimal #: 305.42'0973
Mass Market Paperback: 746 pages
SKU: 117089
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 2721004484 Book free of markings. Cover shows light surface & edge wear. Interior & spine evidence little to no use; overall, a very pretty copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Amazon.com 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.
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Customer Reviews
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Riding Her Laurels, Faludi's Book is Unreadable, Unfocused and Boundlessly Boring
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Date: 2005-09-14
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you subscribe to the reasoning that a winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism would naturally have to produce a well reasoned and, certainly, a readable book on western cultures male driven backlash on the inroads of the feminist revolution, you might well be considered to be in the majority. Holding onto your illusions, however, would require that you forgo the dubious 'pleasure' of reading the monotonously repetitious, unfocused and logically terminal tome by Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
I bought and partially read this book after watching a talk show on which Ms. Faludi was one of the guest authors. She said very little (in fact nothing concrete) about the books actual contents and deflected the more incisive probes with variations on "To get an answer to your question you'll have to read the book". I was more naive then than now and, buying into the mystery, plunked down good money for the hardcover edition of the book.
Chapter after chapter I slugged through pseudo-factual enumerations of "assaults" on the inroads on women's rights, looking for a point (or even the indication that one was on the horizon) where the interminable ambiguous listings of "offenses" would come together into a cohesive whole which substantiated a backlash by the evil male manipulators of legal and (mainly) cultural mores.
Two thirds of the way through this very long book it was becoming clear that no such focal point was coming or, indeed, was possible, based on what had preceded. Then I 'cheated' a little and skipped ahead to the final chapters. Lo and behold, I found more of the same endless ambiguous listing that apparently makes up the substance of the book.
As a well-known feminist reviewer of books said of this farcical foray: "I don't know anyone who has read this book all the way through. I couldn't and I have not been able to find anyone who has."
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