Susan Faludi
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi makes a strong case for the need to revive the feminist movement. Backlash compels women to see how the self-determination they were on the verge of winning is now slipping from their grasp. It is both a warning and a new agenda for action.Find it:
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
Susan Faludi
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash—an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11
In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country’s psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore “traditional” manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling “security moms,” swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the “rescue” of a female soldier cast as a “helpless little…Find it:
