The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken
by any
feminist at any time, if the
thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.
While second - wave feminism got so many things so very right, and made possible a great many of the career and life choices my generation of women enjoys today, many in that group of
feminist thinkers got one thing fundamentally wrong, and that is this: even for those of us who are also productively employed outside the home — whether
by choice, necessity or both — our most valued, fulfilling role is the one we take on as mothers to our children.