Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991)

Susan Faludi's best-seller, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, argues that an elite of mostly male, mostly pale opinion makers has propagated images of women that are reactionary, degrading, and often false. If her rhetoric is heated, she still writes well enough to make the developments she describes as vivid as a 60 Minutes exposé. A-