Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Cover of the first edition
Author	Susan Faludi
Language	English
Subject	Feminism in the United States
Published	1991
Publisher	Crown Publishing Group
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	552
ISBN	978-0-517-57698-4

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is a 1991 book by Susan Faludi, in which the author presents evidence demonstrating the existence of a media-driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of the 1970s in the United States.^[1]

Faludi argues that the backlash uses a strategy of "blaming the victim", by suggesting that the women's liberation movement itself is the cause of many of the problems alleged to be plaguing American women in the late 1980s.^[2] She also argues that many of these problems are illusory, constructed by the media without reliable evidence.^{[citation needed]}

Faludi also identifies backlash as a historical trend, recurring when women have made substantial gains in their efforts to obtain equal rights. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

A 15th anniversary edition was released in 2006.^{[citation needed]}