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The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say Hardcover – March 15 2011
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- ISBN-101935071270
- ISBN-13978-1935071273
- EditionFirst Edition, First edition
- PublisherWND Books
- Publication dateMarch 15 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions16 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- Print length226 pages
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About the Author
Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. Author of 20 books, Schlafly has written a monthly newsletter since 1967 called The Phyllis Schlafly Report and a syndicated column, which appears in 100 newspapers. Her daily radio commentaries are heard daily on over 600 stations, and her radio talk show on education called Eagle Forum Live is heard weekly on 90 stations. She lived in St. Louis.
Product details
- Publisher : WND Books; First Edition, First edition (March 15 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 226 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1935071270
- ISBN-13 : 978-1935071273
- Item weight : 504 g
- Dimensions : 16 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #740,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #479 in Gender Studies Textbooks
- #616 in Public Policy Textbooks
- #821 in Public Policy (Books)
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About the author

SUZANNE VENKER is the author of five books on the culture’s assault on marriage and the family (and how to circumvent it), as well as a marriage coach and podcast host of The Suzanne Venker Show. For over 15 years, Suzanne has taught women how to succeed with men in life and in love. She’s a leading voice for millions of women and men who know that a partnership with the opposite sex is superior to constant competition. Suzanne’s extensive research, combined with her sound and compelling arguments, dispel feminist myths that have infiltrated society and undermined women’s most important relationships. She has helped women:
• embrace the way men and women are naturally wired
• prioritize marriage and relationships over career
• express their unique value outside the marketplace
• enjoy the power of their femininity in sex and relationships
• build a lasting, satisfying relationship with a man
• build a flexible career that accommodates the needs of children and family life
Suzanne is a former columnist at the Washington Examiner and former contributor at Fox News. Her 2012 article, “The War on Men,” remains one of Fox News’ most read op-eds in history.
Suzanne’s work has also appeared in publications such as Time, USA Today, and the New York Post and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Huffington Post and London’s Daily Mail.
Her TV credits include Fox & Friends, STOSSEL, The View, CNN, ABC and more. She has appeared on hundreds of radio programs throughout the country, and her work has been featured on “The Dr. Laura Program,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Rush Limbaugh Show.”
A former English teacher, Suzanne was born in St. Louis, MO, and graduated from Boston University in 1990. After ten years on the East Coast, Suzanne returned to the Midwest, where she now lives with her husband of 23 years and their two teenagers, who are now in college. Her website is www.suzannevenker.com.
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I wish I read this book when I was 16. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I read a lot and few books are better written, more insightful or more relevant to understanding our culture.
Obviously this is a controversial subject so the writer's prose is even more elegant considering the turbulent subject material.
This book has dramatically changed my life. I am no longer the same, I understand our culture, myself, men and women like I did not before.
i really appreciate this book.
The other couple of books i can really recommend are "The Male Brain" and "The Female Brain". Written by Louann Brizendine M.D
The Male Brain The Female Brain
Feminists have kids. Lots of them. And we love them! We just don't think women should be tied to a narrow conception of what "being a woman" means. Which means that we don't think women's sole place is barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
You've also got to wonder why these women have to constantly utter the word "liberal" as if it were some bad word. And we progressive folks have to start reappraising the word "liberal" in the first place.
Because we don't live in the 1950s anymore. And despite what the authors contend, I don't know too many women who think those years were glorious for women and that we should go back to that time when women were at the mercy of their husband and had little say over their lives. And considering feminism has still so much to offer to women (and men, who also benefit from equal relations between the sexes!), considering there are still some very real obstacles for women to overcome, both in their professional and private lives, the movement is not about to die out, much to the chagrin of the authors. And I will continue to proudly consider myself a feminist and to speak up loud and clear against gender inequalities and sexist policies.
shame on feminists for helping to take down a law (who am I kidding...many laws) which allowed for women to be beaten by their husbands and treated like property (heck we couldn't own any...so why not be treated like some, right?)
shame on feminists for working with queer feminists, feminists of colour you name it to create a better (not perfect!) world where women all over the globe can begin conversations on how to eradicate inequity, sex and gender based, race and class based, governmental, policy driven etc. oppressions
shame on feminists for trying to transform young girls who are obsessed with having the perfect body OR obsesseed with being some boys play thing into "feminists" (oh dear...I'm not sure if that word FEMINISM should even be allowed in public funded schools..what a crime on humanity to teach girls about choices, activism and systemic discrimination...let's just keep teenage pregnancy on a rise without addressing any of the underlying issues. Hey they'll make great mothers..who cares if they are 15 or 12!)
It's a real real real shame that Feminism existed in the first place. This is a great book. N to the O to the T!
BITEMEFILMFEST
It is an absolute joke that this woman was actually awarded an honourariam degrees in 2008 - would we give someone staunchly oopposed to racial equality and black rights an honourariam degree? No, which tells us how much more work feminists have to do that nut bags like this are still acceptable in main stream society. Maybe if she had actually attended University and EARNED them (wow, thanks feminism! women can earn degrees!) she wouldn't be so draconian and ass-backwards.
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On the negative side it is politically partisan and written with Americans in mind but the intelligent reader should be able to apply what is written to their own lives easily. And also it maintains that the two part system in politics isn't manipulated and rigged. However the book does try to rescue Conservatism from what passes for Conservative today in it's defence.
Even though I was hard core liberal, I was honestly against abortion the entire time. I fought in the name of women's right to have an abortion, but yet felt it was wrong. After I graduated college and started teaching in the public school, I knew something was going on, and it wasn't right. I taught in a Midwestern inner city school where the majority of my students were on both the free breakfast and lunch programs, most didn't know if their homes would have running water that night, or where they would be sleeping. In one class alone, 22 out of 35 kids lived with their mom only. A few knew who their dads were. Quite a number had siblings sired by different fathers and the mom still by herself. These kids, living in poverty, although may have seemed dumb to the outside world, were very very smart. They had to be to survive. They didn't like that they didn't know or have a male figure in their lives. What their mom's called 'a woman's right to have a baby without a father present' only brought sadness on their kids. They wanted to have a dad or adult male figure present in their lives. They didn't want a slew of mom's 'boyfriends' coming over. Several kids joked that their 'mom is a ho'. To them their mom's feminist lifestyle (as the moms would put it) was not seen that way by their kids.
This was the first time my liberal world was shattered. I was still a hard core liberal, but the shell was beginning to crack.
I begin to wonder why feminist groups were so hard for pushing and pushing 'womens rights' in the form of abortions and the pill. Although this is still being debated, even to this day, I wondered why feminists weren't pushing for health right to HAVE a baby instead of trying to either get rid of a pregnancy or not even have one. Women are biologically meant to have children. I understand there are times when birth control is needed and effective in it's job. Long term relationships, maybe you have PCOS and need the BCP to regulate your hormones, I understand that.
Then I hit 30. A few more things shattered in in the liberal shell I had going. I quit being vegan and vegetarian all together. This was due to an iron count so low I was about to go anemic. No amount of prescription iron pills were helping. Although the GP applauded my vegetarian/vegan lifestyle, he said it's not for every body type.
I also took a job overseas and saw how universal health care works in other countries, I also saw how other cultures around the world value a mother at home, or not necessarily home ALL the time, but a good family structure. I started to listen to my older relatives how communication is important in relationship and today's women are all about 'gimme gimme gimme' in the relationships but unwilling to give back in return. I looked at how my friend's relationships would crumble because the women wanted to run the relationship in total, no exceptions made. At work I ran into a slew of older, unmarried women without children who made their jobs their careers and how miserable they were. Many realized too late that they wish they put a relationship and a family first, but now in their late 40's/early 50's it was too late for them. Many regretted it, even those that were hard core feminists. They knew they would spend their retirement years alone and wish they had children.
I made the change completely from hard core liberal to conservative AFTER I met my husband. At this point I was 'getting up in years' even though I was in my 30's. I knew I wanted children at this time, something I was against when I was younger. I admit I had a hard time making the change because the feminist agenda pushes women NOT to accept being a wife and mother.
The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say basically brings home what I felt at that point. I realized what the feminist agenda was at that time, how it hurt me in my past relationships, and what it is doing today. Yes, I'm a mom that works because I need to and my child needs the social integration and structure at the specialist school we're sending him too. I hate having my kids in daycare during the day. I feel guilt even though all the feminists around me at work tell it it's okay. I get more satisfaction staying at home with my kids than I do at work. And yes, we plan on having more kids, at which point I will stay home (I make a bit more than the daycare costs right now).
This book sums up practically everything I've felt about the evolution of feminism. It WAS good and served a purpose back in the day, but now it has morphed into a horrible horrible monster that pushes a destructive agenda that not only hurts women, but uses children as battlefield fodder and treats men like a dog going to an animal shelter.