Overview
"Stiffed is a brilliant, important book.. Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with breathtaking confidence and beauty... She goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes in the past three decades..." āTime
In 1991, internationally renowned feminist journalist Susan Faludi ignited a revival of the womenās movement with her revelatory investigative reportage: Backlash was nothing less than a landmark, uncovering an āundeclared warā against womenās equality in the media, advertising, Hollywood, the workplace, and governmentāa war that is still being fought today.
Stiffed may be even more essential than Backlash to understanding the cultural riptides that led to Trumpian America. Here, Faludi turns her attention to the so-called āAngry Maleā politics plaguing the nation. Through deeply researched, nuanced, and empathetic character studies of distressed industrial workers, laid-off aerospace engineers, combat veterans, football fans, evangelical husbands, suburban and inner-city teenage boys, and Hollywood and porn actors, Stiffed goes beyond the easy explanations of male misbehaviorāthat itās driven by chromosomes or hormonesāto lay bare the powerful social and economic forces that have shattered the postwar compact defining American manhood.Ā Faludiās vivid storytelling illuminates the historic and traumatic paradigm shift from a āutilitarianā manliness, grounded in civic and communal service, to an āornamentalā masculinity shaped by entertainment, marketing, and performance values.
Read in the light of Trumpian politics and the #MeToo movement, Faludiās analysis speaks acutely to our present crisis, and to a foreboding future.Ā StiffedĀ delivers a searing portrait of modern-day male America, and traces the provenance of a gender war that continues to rage, unabated.
This book title, Stiffed 20th Anniversary Edition (The Roots of Modern Male Rage), ISBN: 9780062858412, by Susan Faludi, published by HarperCollins (October 15, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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