ABSTRACT
Susan Faludi views the backlash against women as an undeclared war in her epic book. Throughout her book, Faludi illustrates how the hypocrisy of the American media conveniently filters information according to gender in advancing gender-based arguments. Abramovitz sees the backlash as a counterattack by certain standards as a means of regulating women's lives and where women are limited to the domestic roles of marriage, motherhood and raising families. Moreover, by these very conservative principles, many issues that are disproportionately more likely to impact women are rendered abhorrent in the sense that they should not exist - divorce, immigration, abortion, labor laws and affirmative action. Even men, once they take on the mantle of fatherhood or of caretakers, they too suffer some backlash in the form of under-evaluated performance, although not to the extent that professionals who are mothers in the workplace do.
