Stiffed, Susan Faludi
Stiffed, Susan Faludi
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Stiffed
The Roots of Modern Male Rage

Author: Susan Faludi

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Unabridged: 29 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

This 20th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller features a new introduction from the author!"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..." –TimeIn 1991, internationally renowned feminist journalist Susan Faludi ignited a revival of the women’s movement with her revelatory investigative reportage: Backlash was nothing less than a landmark, uncovering an “undeclared war” against women’s equality in the media, advertising, Hollywood, the workplace, and government—a 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 “Angry Male” 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 misbehavior—that it’s driven by chromosomes or hormones—to lay bare the powerful social and economic forces that have shattered the postwar compact defining American manhood.  Faludi’s vivid storytelling illuminates the historic and traumatic paradigm shift from a “utilitarian” manliness, grounded in civic and communal service, to an “ornamental” masculinity shaped by entertainment, marketing, and performance values.Read in the light of Trumpian politics and the #MeToo movement, Faludi’s analysis speaks acutely to our present crisis, and to a foreboding future. Stiffed delivers a searing portrait of modern-day male America, and traces the provenance of a gender war that continues to rage, unabated.

About Susan Faludi

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, and The Baffler, among other publications.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on March 17, 2017

Faludi almost outdid Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women here documenting the way brutal sex-role stereotypes caught up to the XY chromosomes of the species. The "betrayal" is that men thought they'd become....civilized, educated, fine manners, damn - even equal household duties!, bu......more

Goodreads review by Neil on February 08, 2017

Why did so many white men vote for Donald Trump? Why did they hate Clinton with such a passion? What are all these guys so mad about? You could do worse than reading this book from the 1990s to see a remarkably consistent thesis driven home by character studies of struggling men. It shows how baby bo......more

Goodreads review by Elana on August 26, 2012

Susan Faludi is brilliant. She is without a doubt one of the most skilled, insightful and nuanced investigative journalists of our time. I would say that her work often crosses over between journalism and anthropology. She has an incredible knack for getting to the heart of the story, for getting pe......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Marcia on December 13, 2009

This is a beautifully written book about masculinity in America. I credit this book with sparking my interest in gender studies and American Studies. Faludi is able to weave seemingly disparate narratives into a compelling story of how industrialization, economic insecurity and little change in gend......more

Goodreads review by Julie on January 31, 2017

Faludi makes her case via storytelling -- anecdotes woven through with history. It's well written and flows; it's not boring sociology or impersonal statistics. I read this way back in 2000 (I think), yet three of the chapter vignettes have stuck with me vividly 15+ years later: 1 - So-Cal lower-mid......more