When The Enemy Has No Face, Society

The Backlash Against Women's Rights Would Be Just One Of Several Powerful Forces Creating A Harsh And Painful Climate For Women At Work. Reagonomics, The Recession, And The Expansion Of A Minimum-wage Service Economy Also Helped, In No Small Measure, To Slow And Even Undermine Women's Momentum In The Job Market. But The Backlash Did More Than Impede Women's Opportunities For Employment, Promotions, And Better Pay. Its Spokesmen Kept The News Of Many Of These Setbacks From Women. Not Only Did The Backlash Do Grievous Damage To Working Women C It Did On The Sly.

Women Are Enslaved By Their Own Liberation.

The Point Of Feminism ... Is To Win Women A Wider Range Of Experience. Feminism Remains A Pretty Simple Concept, Despite Repeated - And Enormously Effective - Efforts To Dress It Up In Greasepaint And Turn Its Proponents Into Gargoyles.

In The '30s And '40s, The Search For Hungarian National Identity Led Famously To An Alliance With Hitler And The Destruction Of More Than A Half Million Of The Nation's Jews. And Here We Are Now, More Than 70 Years Later, Witnessing A Resurgence Of Xenophobia And Authoritarianism, And Not Just In Eastern Europe.

All Of Women's Aspirations--whether For Education, Work, Or Any Form Of Self-determination--ultimately Rest On Their Ability To Decide Whether And When To Bear Children. For This Reason, Reproductive Freedom Has Always Been The Most Popular Item In Each Of The Successive Feminist Agendas--and The Most Heavily Assaulted Target Of Each Backlash.