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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...
...then she read Backlash, by Susan C. Faludi '81, which chronicles the media's and society's negative reaction to the feminist movement...
Harvard's other representatives tend to taketheir elitism more seriously. Faludi, a formermanaging editor of The Crimson, recently completeda highly acclaimed book on feminism calledBacklash...