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I'm going to add that Susan Faludi wrote about "Backlash" in 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlash:_The_Undeclared_War_A...

and she wrote "Stiffed" about the problem of men in 1999,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffed:_The_Betrayal_of_the_A...

There is a case study in that second book about Stanley, a brand that represented masculinity and how it's trajectory reflected the decline of men, in recent years Stanley has become a symbol of female-gendered consumerism.



Interesting. Thanks for the links.




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