Stiffed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Faludi
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History and psychology
- Time of Work: World War II to the end of the twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Psychology
- Subjects: Parents and children, World War II, Feminism, Women’s issues, Fathers, Oral history, Economic conditions, Mass media, Shipbuilding
- Locales: United States
Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991) and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Her previous work dealt with the magnitude of men’s resistance to women’s struggle for equality and independence. This work starts with the query, “Why do men resist women’s gains?” but quickly shifts focus to explore the new nature of manhood in a media-driven age.
Faludi introduces her subject with an allegory of a father-to- son inheritance: an artificial star, or satellite, appearing in the heavens before the joint gaze of the...
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