Backlash

As ground-breaking in its own way as its two important predecessors, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Faludi's book is just as gripping

Newsweek

Faludi uses her dazzling investigative powers to zap the smug detractors of feminism, the hypocrites, backsliders, and antifeminists. The result is a rich and juicy read, informed by powerful logic and moral clarity

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

Persuasive, fair, entertaining, wonderfully informed, diverting

Fay Weldon, Daily Mail

Recommended as essential reading for both sexes

Today

The backlash against women is real. This is the book we need to understand it, to struggle through the battle fatigue and to keep going

Alice Walker