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(3) Stephanie Genz contends that the new '"postfeminist woman" [.] has variously been described as an antifeminist backlasher, a sexually assertive "do-me feminist," a prowoman, pseudo-feminist and a feminine Girlie feminist'.

The vagueness of "gender free" discourse, alongside its lack of anchoring in concrete policies, Yamaguchi argues, allowed it to be given multiple, contradictory meanings by distinctive actors: the author who originally coined the term, the scholars who introduced it to Japan, bureaucratic feminists in state institutions, queer activists, and conservative "backlashers." The effects on feminism were not salutary.

We remember the whole story; we know it was a golden age; and we know better than to join in the exultation of dot-com backlashers, old economy scolds, or now-jobless economic naifs still excited over the prospect that San Francisco housing rates might fall."

The apparent blindness of the backlashers to their self-victimization has long made many of us crazy.

The current installment of this fantasy is the story of "the two Americas," the symbolic division of the country that, after the presidential election of 2000, captivated not only backlashers but a sizable chunk of the pundit class.

His record gave him an instant rapport with white backlashers. According to a Nixon campaign memo:

When feminists and backlashers agree on a gender issue, something's surely amiss.

When 1 met and interviewed conservative activists, most of them said it wasthe first time that they had had a conversation with a feminist in anon-confrontational context--and the same could be said for me.Feminists also demonized "backlashers"; I frequentlyobserved fear expressed by feminists on listservs and at conferencesessions toward them.

In earlier days, Frank suggests, the backlashers' social status would have made them Democrats, but the Democratic Party has abandoned the appeals to class interests "that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans," and in this way they have "left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns or abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns" (He does not claim that a majority of working-class voters embrace the backlash, just that a majority of the backlash is working-class.)

backlashers, in order to assert their rightful membership in the