Book Review

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Writer: Susan Faludi; Genres: Nonfiction, Politics and Current Events, Women's Studies; Publisher: Anchor Books

For nearly 500 pages, Susan Faludi's best-seller, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, takes aim at the normally veiled maneuvers of media moguls, business executives, and politicians. She aims to show how this elite of mostly male and mostly pale opinion makers has in the past decade propagated images of women that are reactionary, degrading, and false. A-
Originally posted Nov 27, 1992 Published in issue #146 Nov 27, 1992 Order article reprints

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