2008, ISBN: 9780094656307

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Crown Publishers, Incorporated. Good. 159 x 236mm. Paperback. 1992. 618 pages. Cover worn.<br>Winner of the National Book Critics Cir cle award for nonfiction, this controversial, t… More...

Crown Publishers, Incorporated. Good. 159 x 236mm. Paperback. 1992. 618 pages. Cover worn.<br>Winner of the National Book Critics Cir cle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. -- Newsweek . From the Trade Paperback edition. Editorial Reviews Amazon.c om Review A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street J ournal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work : First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainst ream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such belief s are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by co nservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives . This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps th at have elevated women's positions have actually led to their dow nfall. Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tum ultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Pu blishers Weekly Far from being liberated, American women in the 1 980s were victims of a powerful backlash against the handful of s mall, hard-won victories the feminist movement had achieved, says Wall Street Journal reporter Faludi, who won a Pulitzer this yea r. Buttressing her argument with facts and statistics, she states that the alleged man shortage endangering women's chances of mar rying (posited by a Harvard-Yale study) and the infertility epide mic said to strike professional women who postpone childbearing a re largely media inventions. She finds evidence of antifeminist b acklash in Hollywood movies, in TV's thirtysomething , in 1980s f ashion ads featuring battered models and in the New Right's attac k on women's rights. She directs withering commentary at Robert B ly's all-male workshops, Allan Bloom's prolonged rant against wom en and Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer's revisionism. This eloqu ent, brilliantly argued book should be read by everyone concerned about gender equality. First serial to Glamour and Mother Jones. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refe rs to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for th e Wall Street Journal , marshals in a sustained and excoriating 5 00-plus pages what many thoughtful women already know: it isn't t hat the goals of the feminist movement have failed, but that they have not yet been tried. Placing the current backlash against wo men squarely in a historical context (in the 19th century so-call ed experts told women that education would atrophy their wombs), she debunks the shoddy scholarship and half-truths that produced the myths we hear today: that women are fleeing the workplace to stay home and cocoon; that their chances of marrying diminish gre atly if they don't marry young; that their lack of advancement is their own fault. She argues that women's anger and resentment ar e not due to their feminism, but occur because women have not yet been the beneficiaries of the justice, fairness, and equity they deserve. Along the way, Faludi demolishes the anti-feminist agen das of Robert Bly's wild men, Allan Bloom ( Closing of the Americ an Mind , LJ 5/1/87), and George Gilder ( Sexual Suicide , LJ 8/7 3), among others. This is most important book. - GraceAnne A. DeC andido, School Library Journal Copyright 1991 Reed Business Infor mation, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews The Pulitzer-winning journalist (The Wall Street Journal, Ms., The Miami Herald) expl ores the real status of American women in the 90's in this powerf ul and long-overdue myth-buster--an instant classic and a valuabl e companion to Paula Kamen's Feminist Fatale (reviewed below). Co llege-educated women over 30 are more likely to be killed by a te rrorist than to marry. Working women enjoy their careers at the e xpense of their children's welfare. If you're female, you can't r eally have it all. So go the modern myths that were born in the 8 0's, despite the era's supposedly ``liberated'' image, and that h ave terrorized American women ever since. The trouble, claims Fal udi, is not only that the myths aren't true, but that through del iberate action or passive collusion the government, media, and po pular culture have ensured their overpowering influence on the pu blic. Her interest sparked by her discovery that the Harvard-Yale marriage-for-women-over-30 study was based on very shaky methodo logy, but that there was resistance in both the media and governm ent to correcting its conclusions, Faludi went on to uncover the unacknowledged but frighteningly widespread backlash against femi nism that has taken place under the surface of 80's careerism. Ta king the reader step by step through the creation of wildly anti- feminist 80's myths and backlashes in popular culture (Fatal Att raction, the ``New Traditionalism,'' the new ``feminine'' fashion s); in politics (reproductive rights, the female New Right); in p opular psychology (``to improve your marriage, change yourself'') ; in the workplace (lack of day care, parental leave, the wage ga p); and in health (white career women's supposed sterility vs. bl ack women's actual, unaddressed, sterility problem), Faludi convi ncingly peels back layers of deliberate and passive misrepresenta tion to reveal what she sees as the underlying message of the Rea gan-Bush era: Women's problems are a direct result of too much in dependence, and no one but feminists are to blame. Historically, backlashes have always followed feminist gains, Faludi points out ; the necessity is to see behind today's hip ``postfeminist'' apa thy to the injustices still being done. Brilliant reportage, with all the details in place--a stunning debut. -- Copyright ®1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Th e backlash against women is real. This is the book we need to hel p us understand it, to struggle through the battle fatigue, and t o keep going. -- Alice Walker. Withering commentary... This elo quent, brilliantly argued book should be read by everyone concern ed with gender equality. -- Publishers Weekly. Backlash is the r ight book at exactly the right time... This trenchant, passoinate , and lively book should be an eye-opener even for feminists who thought they understood what has been going on. -- Los Angeles Ti mes Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text re fers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Fr om the Publisher Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timel y book is as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Se x and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. -- Newsweek. The ba cklash against women is real. This is the book we need to help us understand it, to struggle through the battle fatigue, and to ke ep going. -- Alice Walker. Withering commentary... This eloquen t, brilliantly argued book should be read by everyone concerned w ith gender equality. -- Publishers Weekly. Backlash is the right book at exactly the right time... This trenchant, passoinate, an d lively book should be an eye-opener even for feminists who thou ght they understood what has been going on. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Inside Flap Winner of the Nation al Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine My stique. -- Newsweek. From the Trade Paperback edition. --This te xt refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title . From the Back Cover The backlash against women is real. This i s the book we need to help us understand it, to struggle through the battle fatigue, and to keep going. -- Alice Walker. Witheri ng commentary... This eloquent, brilliantly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with gender equality. -- Publishers W eekly. Backlash is the right book at exactly the right time... T his trenchant, passoinate, and lively book should be an eye-opene r even for feminists who thought they understood what has been go ing on. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Au thor A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Susan Faludi won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for explanatory journalism and the Nationa l Book Critics' Circle award for Backlash. She is the author of S tiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, which was published in 1999, and has written for many publications, including The New Yo rker, The Nation, Newsweek, and the New York Times. From the Tra de Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or un available edition of this title. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permiss ion. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION: BLAME IT ON FEMINISM To be a woman in America at the close of the 20th century--what good fortune. That's what we keep hearing, anyway. The barricades hav e fallen, politicians assure us. Women have made it, Madison Aven ue cheers. Women's fight for equality has largely been won, Time magazine announces. Enroll at any university, join any law firm, apply for credit at any bank. Women have so many opportunities no w, corporate leaders say, that we don't really need equal opportu nity policies. Women are so equal now, lawmakers say, that we no longer need an Equal Rights Amendment. Women have so much, former President Ronald Reagan says, that the White House no longer nee ds to appoint them to higher office. Even American Express ads ar e saluting a woman's freedom to charge it. At last, women have re ceived their full citizenship papers. And yet . . . Behind thi s celebration of the American woman's victory, behind the news, c heerfully and endlessly repeated, that the struggle for women's r ights is won, another message flashes. You may be free and equal now, it says to women, but you have never been more miserable. T his bulletin of despair is posted everywhere--at the newsstand, o n the TV set, at the movies, in advertisements and doctors' offic es and academic journals. Professional women are suffering burnou t and succumbing to an infertility epidemic. Single women are gri eving from a man shortage. The New York Times reports: Childless women are depressed and confused and their ranks are swelling. Ne wsweek says: Unwed women are hysterical and crumbling under a pro found crisis of confidence. The health advice manuals inform: Hig h-powered career women are stricken with unprecedented outbreaks of stress-induced disorders, hair loss, bad nerves, alcoholism, a nd even heart attacks. The psychology books advise: Independent w omen's loneliness represents a major mental health problem today. Even founding feminist Betty Friedan has been spreading the word : she warns that women now suffer from a new identity crisis and new 'problems that have no name.' How can American women be in s o much trouble at the same time that they are supposed to be so b lessed? If the status of women has never been higher, why is thei r emotional state so low? If women got what they asked for, what could possibly be the matter now? The prevailing wisdom of the p ast decade has supported one, and only one, answer to this riddle : it must be all that equality that's causing all that pain. Wome n are unhappy precisely because they are free. Women are enslaved by their own liberation. They have grabbed at the gold ring of i ndependence, only to miss the one ring that really matters. They have gained control of their fertility, only to destroy it. They have pursued their own professional dreams--and lost out on the g reatest female adventure. The women's movement, as we are told ti me and again, has proved women's own worst enemy. In dispensing its spoils, women's liberation has given my generation high incom es, our own cigarette, the option of single parenthood, rape cris is centers, personal lines of credit, free love, and female gynec ologists, Mona Charen, a young law student, writes in the Nationa l Review, in an article titled The Feminist Mistake. In return it has effectively robbed us of one thing upon which the happiness of most women rests--men. The National Review is a conservative p ublication, but such charges against the women's movement are not confined to its pages. Our generation was the human sacrifice to the women's movement, Los Angeles Times feature writer Elizabeth Mehren contends in a Time cover story. Baby-boom women like her, she says, have been duped by feminism: We believed the rhetoric. In Newsweek, writer Kay Ebeling dubs feminism The Great Experime nt That Failed and asserts women in my generation, its perpetrato rs, are the casualties. Even the beauty magazines are saying it: Harper's Bazaar accuses the women's movement of having lost us [w omen] ground instead of gaining it. In the last decade, publicat ions from the New York Times to Vanity Fair to the Nation have is sued a steady stream of indictments against the women's movement, with such headlines as when feminism failed or the awful truth a bout women's lib. They hold the campaign for women's equality res ponsible for nearly every woe besetting women, from mental depres sion to meager savings accounts, from teenage suicides to eating disorders to bad complexions. The Today show says women's liberat ion is to blame for bag ladies. A guest columnist in the Baltimor e Sun even proposes that feminists produced the rise in slasher m ovies. By making the violence of abortion more acceptable, the au thor reasons, women's rights activists made it all right to show graphic murders on screen. At the same time, other outlets of po pular culture have been forging the same connection: in Hollywood films, of which Fatal Attraction is only the most famous, emanci pated women with condominiums of their own slink wild-eyed betwee n bare walls, paying for their liberty with an empty bed, a barre n womb. My biological c, Crown Publishers, Incorporated, 1992, 2.5, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. Very Good. 5 x 1 x 8 inches. Hardcover. 2005. 256 pages.<br>As author Barry Gifford was writing these pieces, h e gradually came to realize that what he was creating was a geogr aphical fiction, or a geography of fictions. As Barry explains, E verybody has a story, no matter where they are in the world, and I conceived the device of The Ropedancer when I was in Veracruz, Mexico, at a hotel much like the Hotel Los Regalos de Dios, where the former funambulist, whom I call The Ropedancer, took up resi dence following the demise of the Dancing Ciegas, who plunged to their deaths from a high wire. Many of these stories are tragic, some humorous, but all told by individuals in the confessional m ode which is often the posture assumed by persons adrift in a for eign land and who find themselves not uncomfortably in conversati on late at night with a stranger. Editorial Reviews From Publis hers Weekly Gifford saw his novel Wild at Heart become the David Lynch film, and he co-wrote the screenplay for Lost Highway; this series of snappy vignettes has a cinematic quality, more like a treatment for an episodic film (à la Jim Jarmusch's Night on Eart h) than a collection of stories. Gifford repeatedly conjures the hard-luck story and the noirish setting as he points his lens fro m South America to New Zealand. After Hours at La Chinita, set in a tacky Spanish-style motel in Los Angeles circa 1963, stages th e shooting of a prostitute's abusive customer by God-fearing prop rietress Vermillion Chaney; 20 years later, each of the players i n the drama tells a version of the sad, late slide of the rest of their lives. Almost Oriental involves tortuous travel and romanc e inside a still-shuttered, deeply suspicious Romania by a Stanfo rd University academic on the trail of Bukovina-born Jewish write r Rudolph Buddy Traum. Another long piece, Murder at the Swordfis h Club, concerns an elaborate murder mystery surrounding the deat h of a fisherman in the New Zealand coastal town of Russell. The prolific Gifford has produced multiple fully realized novels (suc h as 2004's Wyoming); this book, while vivid, feels like a break. (Jan.) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Ree d Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist The prolific Gifford, whose novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the award-win ning 1990 David Lynch film, here renders visceral vignettes that often seem better suited to the big screen than to print. A tight rope walker introduces the collection, whose diverse locales incl ude New Zealand, Honduras, and France. There's a one-legged man w ho hangs himself over an unrequited, albeit incestuous, love: Eve n had he the use of both legs, they would not have saved him. Ins tead of walking across the rope he finished by dancing at the end of it. In the masterful After Hours at La Chinita, a prostitute, a celebrated supper--club singer, and a Bible-thumping motel cle rk recount details of a deadly shootout. In the title tale, a man sips beer in a Mexico City cantina once frequented by bullfighte rs as he reminisces about a Eurasian girlfriend with dove-shaped hands and heady perfume. Although Gifford's short stories are end lessly nervy (there's a brash, bearded lady and a lingerie salesm an who seduces women with his wares), his avid fans may find them selves longing for more substantive fare. Allison Block Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review An a rtful ride down dangerous roads. -- Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2005 About the Author Barry Gifford is a literary lion whose nov els have been translated into twenty-five languages and who's bee n the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for th e Arts, the American Library Association, and the Writers Guild o f America. His novel Wild at Heart was turned into a David Lynch film, and he co-wrote the screenplays for Lost Highway (1997) and City of Ghosts (2003). His more recent books, Wyoming and The Ph antom Father were named the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year a nd a New York Times notable Book of the Year, respectively. He al so cowrote the film Lost Highway (1997) with David Lynch, and co- wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts (2003). H is essays and stories have appeared in Punch, Esquire, Rolling St one, The New York Times, and El Pais, among other publications. H e lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. ., Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005, 3, London: The Women's Press Ltd. Very Good. 1983. Reprint; Seventeenth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover corner creases, some shelf wear, slight grime to edges of reading block. ; Seventeenth printing of paperback edition, 1986. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design based on the poster for Steven Speilberg's film adaptation. ; 256 pages; Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story of Celie set in the Deep South between the First and Second World Wars. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she has no one to talk to but God, until she meets a woman who offers love and support. ., The Women's Press Ltd, 1983, 3, Budgewoi, Australia: Kingfisher Press, 1997. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback, First Edition, 425gms, 326 pages. Ken Bartlett, an Australian Sailor in a corvette in the Atlantic, took on a cloak-and-dagger mission into Nazi Germany. Book is in very good condition with no visible general wear and tear, no other pre-loved marks. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!., Kingfisher Press, 1997, 3, Budgewoi, Australia: Kingfisher Press, 1997. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback, First Edition, 425gms, 326 pages. Ken Bartlett, an Australian Sailor in a corvette in the Atlantic, took on a cloak-and-dagger mission into Nazi Germany. Book is in very good condition with no visible general wear and tear, no other pre-loved marks. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!., Kingfisher Press, 1997, 3, Walker Books, Great Britain, 2008. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Mike ZBostock. Dive deep down, through the warm waters to the bed of the Sargasso Sea, as a newborn eel starts to swim towards the rivers he will soon call home. Curious young minds will love learning about the waterbed antics of the eel in this picture book which combines story with information. Previously part of the acclaimed "Read and Wonder" series, "Think of an Eel" has been re-launched in the new "Nature Storybooks" series with a brand new look. 30 pages. Cover has a few faint creases. Illustrated in colour. Illustrator: Mike ZBostock. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children's::Children's Fiction; Children; ISBN/EAN: 9781406312010. Inventory No: 238070. . 9781406312010, Walker Books, 2008, 2.5, London: Constable. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - 6¾"- 7¾" Tall 0094656304 Dust jacket no tears or chips. Black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription. maps, photographs, 320 pages clean and tight. A superior copy. The most popular and best-loved walking area in Britain is the Lake District: images of its beauty are familiar to us all, from the Beatrix Potter watercolours of childhood, via countless calenda . pictures, to the writings of Ruskin and the Wordsworths. It also abounds in superb walks, as the energetic and indefatigable Lake Poets knew. But how- in the space of a short holiday- can the visitor discover the best of these walks: not merely the familiar, the close at hand, the favourite of an acquaintance, but the best? Frank Duerden, who has known, loved, and walked in the Lake District since his school days, has produced an indispensable book which describes the forty best walks that the National Park has to offer. They are carefully chosen to give the widest possible variety: ranging from short, easy strolls to long, hard fell-walks so as to cater for both the occasional and the experienced walker, and drawn from all parts of the Lake District so as to include its loveliest and most interesting areas. The walks, usually circular for convenience, are arranged in order of increasing difficulty so that the reader can judge which will best suit him or her. Each walk has a comprehensive route description supported by exceptionally detailed maps specially drawn for this guide; and many features of interest, both natural and man-made, are passed along the way. The book includes information about transport and accommodation within the Park, and has sections on farming, forestry, place-names and Lakeland climbing. In an Appendix, the author also lists walks of special interest- for the disabled, orienteers, nature-lovers and long-distance walkers. With this original and authoritative guide, even those new to the Lake District can be certain of discovering not just the best walking but also something of the rich heritage of this incomparable region. ., Constable, 1986, 2.75<

1986, ISBN: 9780094656307

London: Constable. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - 6¾"- 7¾" Tall 0094656304 Dust jacket no tears or chips. Black cloth with bright… More...

London: Constable. Very Good/Very Good. 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - 6¾"- 7¾" Tall 0094656304 Dust jacket no tears or chips. Black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription. maps, photographs, 320 pages clean and tight. A superior copy. The most popular and best-loved walking area in Britain is the Lake District: images of its beauty are familiar to us all, from the Beatrix Potter watercolours of childhood, via countless calenda . pictures, to the writings of Ruskin and the Wordsworths. It also abounds in superb walks, as the energetic and indefatigable Lake Poets knew. But how- in the space of a short holiday- can the visitor discover the best of these walks: not merely the familiar, the close at hand, the favourite of an acquaintance, but the best? Frank Duerden, who has known, loved, and walked in the Lake District since his school days, has produced an indispensable book which describes the forty best walks that the National Park has to offer. They are carefully chosen to give the widest possible variety: ranging from short, easy strolls to long, hard fell-walks so as to cater for both the occasional and the experienced walker, and drawn from all parts of the Lake District so as to include its loveliest and most interesting areas. The walks, usually circular for convenience, are arranged in order of increasing difficulty so that the reader can judge which will best suit him or her. Each walk has a comprehensive route description supported by exceptionally detailed maps specially drawn for this guide; and many features of interest, both natural and man-made, are passed along the way. The book includes information about transport and accommodation within the Park, and has sections on farming, forestry, place-names and Lakeland climbing. In an Appendix, the author also lists walks of special interest- for the disabled, orienteers, nature-lovers and long-distance walkers. With this original and authoritative guide, even those new to the Lake District can be certain of discovering not just the best walking but also something of the rich heritage of this incomparable region. ., Constable, 1986, 2.75<

1986, ISBN: 0094656304

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780094656307], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Constable, London], Jacket, Dust jacket no tears or chips. Black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscript… More...

[EAN: 9780094656307], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Constable, London], Jacket, Dust jacket no tears or chips. Black cloth with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription. maps, photographs, 320 pages clean and tight. A superior copy. The most popular and best-loved walking area in Britain is the Lake District: images of its beauty are familiar to us all, from the Beatrix Potter watercolours of childhood, via countless calenda . pictures, to the writings of Ruskin and the Wordsworths. It also abounds in superb walks, as the energetic and indefatigable Lake Poets knew. But how- in the space of a short holiday- can the visitor discover the best of these walks: not merely the familiar, the close at hand, the favourite of an acquaintance, but the best? Frank Duerden, who has known, loved, and walked in the Lake District since his school days, has produced an indispensable book which describes the forty best walks that the National Park has to offer. They are carefully chosen to give the widest possible variety: ranging from short, easy strolls to long, hard fell-walks so as to cater for both the occasional and the experienced walker, and drawn from all parts of the Lake District so as to include its loveliest and most interesting areas. The walks, usually circular for convenience, are arranged in order of increasing difficulty so that the reader can judge which will best suit him or her. Each walk has a comprehensive route description supported by exceptionally detailed maps specially drawn for this guide; and many features of interest, both natural and man-made, are passed along the way. The book includes information about transport and accommodation within the Park, and has sections on farming, forestry, place-names and Lakeland climbing. In an Appendix, the author also lists walks of special interest- for the disabled, orienteers, nature-lovers and long-distance walkers. With this original and authoritative guide, even those new to the Lake District can be certain of discovering not just the best walking but also something of the rich heritage of this incomparable region. Size: 12mo - 6¾"- 7¾" Tall, Books<

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