| Descript |
592 p. |
| 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. |
| ISBN |
009922271X |
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