Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi · first published 1981
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Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women's Rights "Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author that brings backlash consciousness up to date. When it was first published, Backlash made headlines for puncturing such favorite media m
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…across similar to the excuse: "well of course she got raped - look at how she was dressed". Feminism only became a "dirty word" during President Reagan's term. Susan Faludi wrote a very good book titled Backlash explaining how the backlash against feminism started, who did it and what motivated them. http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Undeclared-Against-American-W... > Stop trying to 'get more women in technology'.…
on “Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment” ↗Rich sex pests engaged in a coordinated effort to destroy #metoo and protect themselves basically as soon as the movement started. You can even see a lot of this in the Epstein files. The backlash to #metoo was larger than the movement ever was (while not referring to the same event, Susan Faludi's Backlash is a great discussion of this). The effect is that a ton of these guys either experienced…
on “Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI” ↗The stories about the backlash against the diversity efforts at Stanford, circa 1994, are what Susan Faludi was talking about in her book "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" which was published in 1991. That era saw…
on “Stanford's Women Won Just a Sliver of Silicon Valley” ↗I'm going to add that Susan Faludi wrote about "Backlash" in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlash:_The_Undeclared_War_A... and she wrote "Stiffed" about the problem of men in 1999, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffed:_The_Betrayal_of_the_A... There…
on “PG: SV cooled on Democrats due to Wokeness and Warren appointees” ↗