Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi's seminal book Backlash is extremely well-reported, as it details the 1980s and 1990s backlash to earlier feminist achievements — a backlash that "has been set off... by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finish line... The backlash is not a conspiracy with a council dispatching agents from some central control room, nor are the people who serve its ends often aware of their role... for the most part its workings are encoded and internalized, diffuse and chameleonic."