false 723244 4 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock 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? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling "security moms," swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the "rescue" of a female soldier cast as a "helpless little girl"? The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack 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. Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9/11 revealed about us — and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew. - Publisher's comment 709477 2 10 2007 The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America total:248|5:57|4:114|3:64|2:13|1:0| 248 959 549 80 3 2 false false Sat Nov 17 10:32:12 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 17 10:32:12 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 11:29:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 09:06:30 -0700 2008 I wondered why I felt so out-of-time-and-place after 9/11 - it just wasn't the planes ramming into the buildings or the past catching up with us - it's the absence of women in the reporting aspect. Media and politicians turned the tragedy as being given the divine right to push u...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 06:38:17 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 13 07:18:07 -0700 2008
Faludi’s book has stirred controversy with its thesis: traditional gender roles have been pushed by the media and government post-September 11th in order to maintain our sense of national strength. In the introduction she indicates that this is only one fac...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 16:48:21 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 17:01:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 09:05:15 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 09:19:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 22:14:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 17:15:55 -0800 2008
The answer lies in our nation's particular history, and the bloody settling of the frontier that left its imprint on our collective psyche and resulted in myth-m...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 24 07:09:19 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 12:25:02 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 07:08:59 -0700 2007
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