Word: faludi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faludi: I also like to point out that despite all these efforts to turn women into victims, women did resist -- by not buying the clothes or rushing out to get married at 18, or by not becoming "neotraditionalists...
...Faludi: In an odd way I was playing more by the boys' rules -- saying, O.K., you men will listen to data and "rational arguments" and statistics, and the body of evidence will convince...
...Faludi: A lot of that desire to stay home has nothing to do with feminism; it has to do with the economic opportunities out there, which shrank considerably. I certainly don't regard women as sheep, and I believe I have far more respect for my own sex than the average advertiser or TV programmer. Women were barraged with one article after another telling them that every other woman out there wanted to go home, so eventually that message seeped in, the same way it did with the marriage study. To say that women and men have been manipulated...
...Faludi: The surveys I've looked at indicate that roughly the same proportion of working men as working women fantasize about retreating to the home. Moreover, sometimes it's very hard to know what one thinks under the pressure of the backlash, to sort out what's you thinking and what's the internalized message about what you're supposed to think...
...Faludi: Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grownup...