Backlash The Undeclared War Against American Women

Backlash

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-29
ISBN : 1409043444
Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Backlash written by Susan Faludi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality.

Backlash

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : Crown
Release Date : 2009-11-18
ISBN : 0307426874
Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Backlash written by Susan Faludi and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true.”—Newsday First published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.

Die Perlenohrringe meines Vaters

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Release Date : 2018-10-26
ISBN : 342343418X
Pages : 400 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (423 users)

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Download or read book Die Perlenohrringe meines Vaters written by Susan Faludi and published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das neue, große Buch der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Die Nachricht trifft sie aus heiterem Himmel. Ihr Vater, mit dem sie kaum noch Kontakt hatte und der inzwischen wieder in seinem Heimatland Ungarn lebt, hatte eine Geschlechtsumwandlung vornehmen lassen. Welche Verbindung gibt es zwischen diesem neuen Elternteil, der sich nun "vollständig als Frau" identifiziert, und dem wortkargen, explosiven und teilweise gewalttätigen Vater, den sie kannte? Faludi sucht die Lösung dieses Rätsels in den Nischen ihrer Vorort-Kindheit und in den vielen Verkörperungen ihres Vaters: Jude im Budapest des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Abenteurer im Amazonasgebiet, All-American Dad und heute eine Frau, die ihr Judentum wiederentdeckt hat. Faludis Versuch, diese Metamorphose zu verstehen, lässt sie Grenzen überwinden – historische, politische, religiöse, sexuelle –, um sie schließlich zu der Frage unserer Zeit zu bringen: Ist Identität etwas, das wir wählen, oder ist Identität etwas, dem wir nicht entkommen können?

Backlash

by Susan Faludi

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Release Date : 2010-05-29
ISBN : 9781409089537
Pages : 608 pages
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A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women"

by Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016
ISBN : 1410340805
Pages : 25 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash

by Cengage Learning Gale

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Release Date : 2017-07-25
ISBN : 9781375376785
Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Susan Faludi's "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

Stiffed

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-30
ISBN : 1409087964
Pages : 672 pages
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Download or read book Stiffed written by Susan Faludi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Backlash, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi became a world-renowned authority on the gender war, and 'backlash' in the gender sense became a household word. Stiffed picks up where Backlash left off. It seeks to understand male behaviour in order to close the chasm between the sexes, and asks the all important question - why? Why are men so fearful and aggressive in the face of women's independence? Why is a little liberation seen as too much? What is it that men really fear, and why? Where other theorists have looked at The Woman Question, Faludi shows us that we should really focus on The Man Question; at the end of the millennium, it is men who are in crisis. With her sharp historical sense, meticulous documentation and lively, probing reportage, and with a remarkable empathy, she argues that men as well as women are at the mercy of social forces distorting their lives. She takes us on a journey through the modern masculine landscape, with unexpected revelations along the way - from the shuttered shipyards to the mass lay-offs of the defence industries, from Hollywood action heroes to gang-torn streets, from militia men to Promise Keepers, praying husbands to male porn actors.

Stiffed

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-10-15
ISBN : 0062859803
Pages : 672 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book Stiffed written by Susan Faludi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 20th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller features a new introduction from the author! "Stiffed is a brilliant, important book.. Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes in the past three decades..." –Time In 1991, internationally renowned feminist journalist Susan Faludi ignited a revival of the women’s movement with her revelatory investigative reportage: Backlash was nothing less than a landmark, uncovering an “undeclared war” against women’s equality in the media, advertising, Hollywood, the workplace, and government—a war that is still being fought today. Stiffed may be even more essential than Backlash to understanding the cultural riptides that led to Trumpian America. Here, Faludi turns her attention to the so-called “Angry Male” politics plaguing the nation. Through deeply researched, nuanced, and empathetic character studies of distressed industrial workers, laid-off aerospace engineers, combat veterans, football fans, evangelical husbands, suburban and inner-city teenage boys, and Hollywood and porn actors, Stiffed goes beyond the easy explanations of male misbehavior—that it’s driven by chromosomes or hormones—to lay bare the powerful social and economic forces that have shattered the postwar compact defining American manhood. Faludi’s vivid storytelling illuminates the historic and traumatic paradigm shift from a “utilitarian” manliness, grounded in civic and communal service, to an “ornamental” masculinity shaped by entertainment, marketing, and performance values. Read in the light of Trumpian politics and the #MeToo movement, Faludi’s analysis speaks acutely to our present crisis, and to a foreboding future. Stiffed delivers a searing portrait of modern-day male America, and traces the provenance of a gender war that continues to rage, unabated.

Stiffed

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Release Date : 2019-10-15
ISBN : 9780062858412
Pages : 672 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (858 users)

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Download or read book Stiffed written by Susan Faludi and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stiffed is a brilliant, important book.. Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes in the past three decades..." –Time In 1991, internationally renowned feminist journalist Susan Faludi ignited a revival of the women’s movement with her revelatory investigative reportage: Backlash was nothing less than a landmark, uncovering an “undeclared war” against women’s equality in the media, advertising, Hollywood, the workplace, and government—a war that is still being fought today. Stiffed may be even more essential than Backlash to understanding the cultural riptides that led to Trumpian America. Here, Faludi turns her attention to the so-called “Angry Male” politics plaguing the nation. Through deeply researched, nuanced, and empathetic character studies of distressed industrial workers, laid-off aerospace engineers, combat veterans, football fans, evangelical husbands, suburban and inner-city teenage boys, and Hollywood and porn actors, Stiffed goes beyond the easy explanations of male misbehavior—that it’s driven by chromosomes or hormones—to lay bare the powerful social and economic forces that have shattered the postwar compact defining American manhood. Faludi’s vivid storytelling illuminates the historic and traumatic paradigm shift from a “utilitarian” manliness, grounded in civic and communal service, to an “ornamental” masculinity shaped by entertainment, marketing, and performance values. Read in the light of Trumpian politics and the #MeToo movement, Faludi’s analysis speaks acutely to our present crisis, and to a foreboding future. Stiffed delivers a searing portrait of modern-day male America, and traces the provenance of a gender war that continues to rage, unabated.

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender

Publisher : Academic Press
Release Date : 2001
ISBN : 0122272455
Pages : 1293 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (122 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Gender written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields of study in the social and behavioral sciences. Along the way, it was discovered that while women very often think and behave differently than do men, industrialized societies cater to masculine perspectives. The "Psychology of Women" emerged as a field of study focusing on just those areas in which women most often butted against assumed roles. And similarly, in the 1990s, the "Psychology of Men" emerged to focus on the same issues for men. The Encyclopedia of Gender covers all three areas under one cover, discussing psychological differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, as well as biologically based differences and how those differences impact behavior. Coverage includes studies of these differences in applied settings such as education, business, the home, in politics, sports competition, etc.

Making Sense of Women's Lives

by Michelle Plott

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780939693535
Pages : 588 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (693 users)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Women's Lives written by Michelle Plott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection. Seeking to provide as full a sampling from a diverse and intellectually vibrant field as one volume permits, the editors have also chosen writing that makes an enjoyable read. A few of the selections here represent the undisputed 'classics' of the field. More of them constitute simply the works, drawn from academic and nonacademic sources alike, that could make a difference in understanding what it means to be female in America. Making Sense of Women's Lives is intended as the primary text in Women's Studies courses. With that usage in mind, Plott and Umansky have provided brief introductions to each article to help students understand the author's perspectives. Thought and discussion questions follow each selection. The book contains, as well, numerous "Flash Exercises" suggestions for class exercises and activities. The editors have used these activities in their courses over the past decade, in conjunction with readings in this volume, and have found that the full complement of materials coalesces into an intellectually powerful introduction to Women's Studies. A Collegiate Press book

Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 volumes]

by Peg A. Lamphier

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2017-01-23
ISBN : 1610696034
Pages : 1828 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 volumes] written by Peg A. Lamphier and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 1828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set documents the complexity and richness of women's contributions to American history and culture, empowering all students by demonstrating a more populist approach to the past. • Provides significantly more detail than typical reference works on women's history and culture, enabling readers to better appreciate the contributions of women of all socio-cultural statuses • Covers the astounding range of American women's experience, including women of various economic and racial statuses, religious affiliations, political and ideological identifications, and sexualities • Includes a significant selection of primary documents, thereby combining the educational power of secondary and primary literature to create a richer learning experience for users

Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN :
Pages : 442 pages
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Not My Mother's Sister

by Astrid Henry

Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-07
ISBN : 9780253217134
Pages : 292 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (217 users)

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Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious generations and the emergence of new feminisms.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Publisher : Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
ISBN : 1438140649
Pages : 2146 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

The Terror Dream

by Susan Faludi

Publisher : Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-10-02
ISBN : 9780805086928
Pages : 382 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (86 users)

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Download or read book The Terror Dream written by Susan Faludi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, journalist Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks of that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore "traditional" manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? The answer, she finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite "barbarians" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.--From publisher description.

The Republican War Against Women

by Tanya Melich

Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2009-10-21
ISBN : 0307573893
Pages : 464 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book The Republican War Against Women written by Tanya Melich and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, Republicans used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the Presidency. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and women's political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the campaigns of 1984, 1988, and 1992. Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this strategy became a crucial part of the party's governing policies. This book is not a political science treatise nor a description of political campaigns; it is a documented account of a grab for power that, as the years pass, continues to intensify antagonism between the sexes and to sow unnecessary division among the American people. As a longtime Republican activist and a delegate to the 1992 convention, Tanya Melich has observed these actions from within; and documents this takeover and the Party's ongoing practices (such as embracing the Christian right) in a devastating, factual, and often hair-raising report. A combination of history, exposÄ, reasoned polemic, and call to arms, this book has now been enriched by two completely new chapters that assesses the outcome of the 1996 election in terms of the book's thesis and realistically lays out the future: both in terms of what it will be if the right-wing elements of the Republican party continue to set the agenda, and how it can be changed if centrist women (and men) take charge of that agenda. The heart of such change lies with Independents, who now constitute a startling 39 percent of Americans (31 percent identify themselves as Democrats and 30 percent as Republicans). We are not a country of strong party loyalties, and the enormous growth of independents is the signal that change is not only possible but achievable. As a superb political pro, the author offers hardheaded strategies for such change.