Culture Quote by Susan Faludi

“Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.”

Susan Faludi

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The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

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the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories…

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As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice…

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The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled…

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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

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The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

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Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

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The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish,…

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I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

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That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were…

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