Il lavoro giornalistico e autoriale di Susan C. Faludi esamina criticamente i fenomeni sociali, concentrandosi in particolare sul femminismo e sull'impatto dei cambiamenti economici sulle vite umane. Le sue analisi sono caratterizzate da una profonda comprensione della complessa interazione tra le narrazioni personali e le forze sociali ed economiche più ampie. Faludi si sforza di scoprire i meccanismi nascosti che plasmano le nostre vite, evidenziando i costi umani dei principali processi economici e politici. La sua scrittura è nota per la sua perspicacia e la sua capacità di stimolare un importante dibattito pubblico.
In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things - obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique." -- Newsweek.
In this original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, journalist Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks of that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged 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? The answer, she finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite "barbarians" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.--From publisher description.