Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

An account of the war against women, the insidiously manipulated political and cultural backlash against the hard-won equality and independence which women achieved in the 1970s and 1980s. Using examples from all areas of public life, Faludi presents a picture of the erosion of women's status.

Presents an analysis of the position of women in Western society.

A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.