Backlash
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0517126982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. Schreck said Riding Her Laurels, Faludi's Book is Unreadable, Unfocused and Boundlessly Boring. 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 . AN “ESSENTIAL” FEMINIST BOOK, IF THERE EVER WAS ONE… Susan Charlotte Faludi (born 1959) is a journalist and author, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991. She has also written Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America. [NOTE: page numbers below refer to the 552-page hardcover edition.]She wrote in the Introduction to this 1991 book, “To be a woman in America at the close of the 20th century---what good fortune. That’s what we keep hearing, anyway… And yet… Behind this. Feminist No. 1. Patriarchy is alive and well in our society. Anyone that denies it must live in a fantasy world. Women are still being abused physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, and sexually, every SINGLE DAY. The Abuse of women has been going on for thousands of years, mostly because abusive men view women as weak, worthless, stupid, and incapable, of living life independently and making their own decisions. I should know! I left 2 abusive husbands and an abusive boyfriend. It becomes a pattern in your life. I have broke
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. In Backlash she masterfully disarms the attackers, then translates popular "facts," and lays the groundwork for the dawning of a new age of feminism. Faludi argues that data on working women and motherhood in the previous decade had been purposefully skewed. . Feminist Susan Faludi writes that during the
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.