Word: anti-feminist
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That Paglia herself is a woman and a self-described (anti-feminist) feminist in no way lessens the misogyny of her attack on four female Harvard faculty. It is indeed telling that what the four faculty members whom Paglia attacks have in common is not their ideological sympathies nor their sexuality, but their gender...
Backlash, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, deals with what Faludi calls the anti-feminist backlash against gains feminists have made over the past decade and a half. The backlash is out of proportion to the small gains women have made, according to Faludi, who cites the Republican Convention and the attacks on Hillary Clinton as recent examples...
Ireland said the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment and in- creased restrictions on reproductive rightshave been anti-feminist victories...
...goes the reasoning, at least, of what Susan Faludi '81 argues was an anti-feminist "backlash" that swept America in the 1980s. In Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi convincingly refutes this argument. First, women are not even close to achieving full equality in the U.S., and in the last decade they have made strides backwards. Second, many widely accepted social theories present a distorted view of how women feel, think and behave. And finally, opponents of the women's movement, and not the movement itself, have hurt women...
...Frey '90, a former Crimson sports editor who worked at The Detroit Free Press this summer. Like Olson, Frey was verbally attacked by a chauvinist athlete--in Frey's case, Tigers pitcher Jack Morris. Like Olson, Frey saw the offending organization's powers-that-be scurry to join the anti-feminist bandwagon. But this problem is not solved by opening the locker rooms...