Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women Summary
Susan Faludi

Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women Summary

Susan Faludi's bestselling book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, is a methodically researched and documented work challenging conventional wisdom about the American women's movement and women's gains in achieving equality in the latter years of the twentieth century. Faludi begins the book by looking carefully at then-current myths about the status of women, including the press reports that single career women are more likely to be depressed than other women, that...

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