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NOTES 30121. Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 10.22. Thomas F. Cash, Diane Walker Cash, and Jonathan W. Butters, " 'Mirror, Mirror onthe Wall. . . ?' Contrast Effects and Self-Evaluations of Physical Attractiveness," Personalityand Social Psychology Bulletin 9, no. 3 (September 1983): 354-55.23. Ms. Wolf did not speak to the principal author at Old Dominion, Thomas Cash, andthere is some doubt that she ever saw the article she cites. She says, for example, thatCash arrived at his conclusions by studying some of his patients, who, he said, were"extremely attractive." But Cash did not study his patients. At the beginning of thearticle, he and his coauthors clearly state that they used "a sample of fifty-one femalecollege students . . . recruited from introductory psychology classes." Dr. Cash toldme, "1 remember thinking she must be confusing my study with another. I nevermentioned anything about my patients, and did not study them."24. Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 165. There is no "American legal definition of rape." Eachstate has its own criteria.25. Ellen Goodman, " 'The Man Shortage' and Other Big Lies," New York Times BookReview, October 27, 1991, p. 1.26. Barbara Lovenheim, letter to the New York Times Book Review, February 9, 1992.27. Faludi, Backlash, p. 30.28. "Facts About Down Syndrome for Women over 35" (Washington D.C.: NationalInstitute of Health, 1979), p. 9.29. Lovenheim, ibid., p. 30.30. Bureau of Census, Current Population Reports, Series P 23, no. 162, June 1989.Cited in Barbara Lovenheim, Beating the Marriage Odds (New York: William Morrow,1990), p. 34.31. Gretchen Morgenson, "A Whiner's Bible," Forbes, March 16, 1992, p. 153.32. Ibid., p. 152.33. Nancy Gibbs, "The War Against Feminism," Time, March 9, 1992, p. 52.34. Ibid.35. Cathy Young, "Phony War," Reason, November 1991, p. 57.36. Working Woman, April 1992, p. 104.37. Ibid.38. Sylvia Nasar, "Women's Progress Stalled? Just Not So," New York Times, October 18,1992, sec. 3, p. 1.39. Diane Ravitch, Youth Policy, June-July 1992, p. 12.40. Nasar, "Women's Progress Stalled?" The article summarizes the recent findings ofthree prominent women economists, Understanding the Gender Gap, by Claudia Goldin(Harvard University); The Economics of Men, Women, and Work, by Francine Blauand Marianne Ferber (University of Illinois); and June O'Neill (Baruch College),"Women and Wages," The American Enterprise, November/December 1990, pp. 25-33.41. Faludi, Backlash, p. 364.42. Ibid.43. These ratios are for median earnings—i.e., the earnings of the male or female in themiddle of the pack (one-half earn more, one-half earn less). Source: Bureau ofCensus, Current Population Reports, Consumer Income Series P60-184, Money Incomeof Households, Families, and Persons in the United States: 1992, September 1993.44. If gender "backlash" is to be inferred from the earnings ratio, it could only have