Susan Faludi Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

  Susan Faludi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

• The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

  Susan Faludi

  Moving, Complaining, Culture

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

  Susan Faludi

  America, Years, Justice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

• 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.

  Susan Faludi

  Media, People, Culture

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

• 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 that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

• I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

  Susan Faludi

  Thinking, Hands, People

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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