Backlash : the undeclared war against American women
Edition
15th anniversary ed., 1st Three Rivers Press ed.
Publication Information
New York : Three Rivers Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xvi, 575 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Crown, c1991.
Contents
- Introduction
- Myths and flashbacks
- Man shortages and barren wombs: the myths of the backlash
- Backlashes then and now
- The backlash in popular culture
- The "trends" of antifeminism: the media and the backlash
- Fatal and fetal visions: the backlash in the movies
- Teen angels and unwed witches: the backlash on TV
- Dressing the dolls: the fashion backlash
- Beauty and the backlash
- Origins of a reaction: backlash movers, shakers, and thinkers
- The politics of resentment: the new right's war on women
- Ms. Smith leaves Washington: the backlash in national politics
- The backlash brain trust: from neocons to neofems
- George Gilder: "America's number-one antifeminist"
- Allan Bloom: a refugee from the feminist occupation
- Michael and Margarita Levin: boys don't cook and girls don't do long division
- Warren Farrell: the liberated man recants
- Robert Bly: turning "yogurt eaters" into "wild men"
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett: the neofeminist's lesser work
- Betty Friedan: revisionism as a marketing tool
- Carol Gilligan: different voices or Victorian echoes?
- Backlashings: the effects on women's minds, jobs, and bodies
- It's all in your mind: popular psychology joins the backlash
- The wages of the backlash: the toll on working women
- Reproductive rights under the backlash: the invasion of women's bodies
- Epilogue
- Notes.