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“Backlash” and Its Utility to Political Scientists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2008

Sue Thomas
Sue Thomas
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
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The global warming backlash, the managed care backlash, the Bush backlash, the corporate backlash, the 9/11 backlash, the Obama backlash, the Clinton backlash, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill backlash, the antigay backlash, the immigration backlash, the backlashes against globalization, student testing, the social, economic, and political progress of Latinos, African Americans, and Asian Americans, and, central to this “Critical Perspectives,” the backlash against the feminist movement—these were just some of the many politically related backlashes that appeared when I performed a general Google search of the words: “backlash” and “politics” in July of 2008.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 615 - 623
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2008

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