Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women is completely subjective and polemical, and the effect on the reader depends entirely on how she or he reacts to massive amounts of hard facts and data that support the author's arguments. Faludi attacks the pervasive war on American women in the 1980s with the ardor of the attackers, partly because the New Right succeeds in cowing women, preventing them from uniting to force through their agenda to obtain full equality in all arenas of life.
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