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Susan Faludi won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1991, when she worked as a reporter on the Wall Street Journal. Backlash was published to world-wide acclaim in 1992. Harvard educated, she now lives in San Francisco.
Faludi asks why the fight for equal rights seems to have ground to a halt in this specially edited British version of an American book that has already been hailed as the 1990s answer to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique or Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. This is an angry, impassioned work. Faludi analyses areas such as equal pay, the beauty business, maternity and reproductive rights and media treatment of women and concludes that a huge backlash against the progress of the 1970s is in progress. Some readers will be swept away by Faludi's rhetoric; others will remain sceptical of its revolutionary fervour; but its message is difficult to ignore. (Kirkus UK)
