Het journalistieke en auteurswerk van Susan C. Faludi onderzoekt kritisch maatschappelijke verschijnselen, met een specifieke focus op feminisme en de impact van economische veranderingen op mensenlevens. Haar analyses kenmerken zich door een diepgaand begrip van de complexe wisselwerking tussen persoonlijke verhalen en bredere sociale en economische krachten. Faludi streeft ernaar de verborgen mechanismen te ontrafelen die onze levens vormgeven, en benadrukt de menselijke kosten van grote economische en politieke processen. Haar schrijfstijl staat bekend om haar scherpzinnigheid en haar vermogen om belangrijke publieke discussies aan te wakkeren.
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.