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the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Susan Faludi

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Susan Faludi
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 18
Feminist
Journalist
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Queens
New York
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All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.
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It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.
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To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
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The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
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A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
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In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
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The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
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Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.
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The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
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My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.
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the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
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Women are enslaved by their own liberation.
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The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
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