{"id":1778,"date":"2016-10-20T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2016-07-25T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:02:11","slug":"womens-power-womens-justice-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/womens-power-womens-justice-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Power | Women&#8217;s Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/07\/final_logo_color-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1738\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/07\/final_logo_color-web-300x72.png\" alt=\"final_logo_color-web\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/07\/final_logo_color-web-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/07\/final_logo_color-web.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally published in 1991, Susan Faludi&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women<\/em> rings just as true 25 years later. From the book cover: &#8220;\u201cOpting-out,\u201d \u201csecurity moms,\u201d \u201cdesperate housewives,\u201d \u201cthe new baby fever\u201d\u2014the trend stories of today\u00a0leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/51KMYJXJ66L._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1781\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/51KMYJXJ66L._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"51KMYJXJ66L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/51KMYJXJ66L._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/51KMYJXJ66L._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>author that brings backlash consciousness up to date.<\/p>\n<p>When it was first published, <i>Backlash<\/i> made headlines for puncturing such favorite media myths as the \u201cinfertility epidemic\u201d and the \u201cman shortage,\u201d myths that defied statistical realities. These willfully fictitious media campaigns added up to an antifeminist backlash. Whatever progress feminism has recently made, Faludi\u2019s words today seem prophetic. The media still love stories about stay-at-home moms and the \u201cdangers\u201d of women\u2019s career ambitions; the glass ceiling is still low; women are still punished for wanting to succeed; basic reproductive rights are still hanging by a thread. The backlash clearly exists.<\/p>\n<p>With passion and precision, Faludi shows in her new preface how the creators of commercial culture distort feminist concepts to sell products while selling women downstream, how the feminist ethic of economic independence is twisted into the consumer ethic of buying power, and how the feminist quest for self-determination is warped into a self-centered quest for self-improvement. <i>Backlash<\/i> is a classic of feminism, an alarm bell for women of every generation, reminding us of the dangers that we still face.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in 1991, Susan Faludi&#8217;s\u00a0Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women rings just as true 25 years later. From the book cover: &#8220;\u201cOpting-out,\u201d \u201csecurity moms,\u201d \u201cdesperate housewives,\u201d \u201cthe new baby fever\u201d\u2014the trend stories of today\u00a0leave no doubt that American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/womens-power-womens-justice-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2016\/10\/160609_BOOKS_Susan-Faludi.jpg.CROP_.promo-xlarge2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}