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 FaludiThe 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.
Susan Faludithe central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
Susan Faludi