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Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Feminist Timeline: United States: 1990s




1990s: The Fighting Back Decade

In 1991, Backlash, The Undeclared War on American Women by Susan Faludi was published, documenting the backlash against the feminist movement throughout the 1980s. Yet throughout the 1990s, women and minorities fought back. Anita F. Hill charged conservative federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment; the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was approved; and, on TV, Xena the Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer demonstrated women's physical more

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