Word: faludi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings coincided with another important revelation about women's experiences in the 1990s. Susan C. Faludi '81's national bestseller Backlash was published...
What has been called the Year of the Woman, because of the higher numbers of women running for Congress, is nearing a close, but Faludi says she will continue to pursue her inquiry into the reasons feminism has come under severe attack in recent years. In fact, she opposes the very term, saying it suggests women's progress is only temporary...
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...
...recent interview with The Crimson, Faludi did not have much new to add to Backlash's primary arguments, because, she says, the intensity of the backlash remains unchanged. She still cuts out clippings of the latest attacks on feminism, and notes with frustration the absence of women's issues at the forefront of national debate...
...Faludi, currently a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, has started research for a second book which deals with the topic of masculinity. Faludi will aim the as yet untitled new book, which is due for publication in two and a half years, at finding the roots of the counterattack identified in Backlash...