Stiffed: The Roots of Modern Male Rage: The Roots of Modern Male Rage
By Susan Faludi
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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..." –Time
In 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.
Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi (Nueva York, 1959) es periodista, licenciada por la Universidad de Harvard. Ha colaborado en The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, The Nation y The Wall Street Journal, entre otras publicaciones. En 1991 recibió el Premio Pulitzer de Periodismo de Divulgación por un reportaje sobre el coste humano que representó la compra apalancada de los supermercados Safeway Stores Inc. Desde entonces ha escrito varios libros de temática interdisciplinar que abordan cuestiones relacionadas con el feminismo desde un punto de vista muy personal. En Anagrama ha publicado Reacción: la guerra no declarada contra la mujer americana (Premio Nacional de la Crítica): «La guerra contra las mujeres es real, como muestra este libro, que nos alienta a continuar nuestra lucha por la igualdad» (Alice Walker); «Una obra cáustica, apasionada y vital que puede resultar reveladora incluso para las feministas, que se creían buenas conocedoras de lo que estaba sucediendo» (Elaine Showalter, Los Angeles Times Book Review), y La pesadilla terrorista. Miedo y fantasía en Estados Unidos después del 11-S: «Virulento y brillante; crítica cultural de la mejor» (Peter Biskind); «Faludi es una elocuente investigadora y una destacada periodista cuya respuesta a la crisis de la sociedad es siempre sagaz y original. Un libro atrevido y valiente » (Vivian Gornick); «Este es un libro que se tenía que escribir, y solo Faludi podía hacerlo de forma tan genial y fascinante» (Barbara Ehrenreich). En el cuarto oscuro, su último libro, escogido entre los diez títulos del año por The New York Times, fue galardonado con el Kirkus Prize 2016 y quedó finalista del Pulitzer. Foto Ⓒ Russ Rymer.
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Reviews for Stiffed
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent dissection of how an unequal society that privileges men can end up screwing them over along with women. Also, a great book to share with someone who thinks feminism must, by improving things for women, make things worse for men.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Following very much in the path broken by Barbara Ehrenreich's Hearts of Men, Susan Faludi’s massive and moving chronicle of American masculinity, Stiffed, draws on the experiences of a wide variety of men: aerospace industry engineers, dockyard workers, professional football coaches, Viet Nam vets, astronauts and convicts, porn stars and (a surprising sympathetic) Sylvester Stallone. The overarching trajectory of Faludi’s analysis is that postwar America made, and then broke, a series of implicit promises to men of all races and all classes: that they would be active participants in society, that they would have work which provided them not just a livelihood but self-worth and dignity, that they would be able to achieve a stable and coherent manhood. What they got instead, Faludi details in scores of interviews, is the profound disappointment of inhabiting a superficial culture in which status has replaced substance and consumption has replaced achievement. All of the men in Stiffed are haunted, to varying degrees, by this sense of loss, and though all look around them for those responsible (feminists, the New World Order) none places the blame where it lies, on a culture interested more in finding new ways to sell products than in offering its inhabitants meaningful roles. Again, though, as Ehrenreich before her, Faludi takes solace in the notion that out of crisis will emerge progressive change in men’s sense of themselves and their relations with women: “Social responsibility is not the special province of masculinity; it’s the lifelong work of all citizens in a community where people are knit together by meaningful and mutual concerns. But if husbanding a society is not the exclusive calling of ‘husbands,’ so much the better for men’s future. Because as men struggle to free themselves from their crisis, their task is not, in the end, figuring out how to be masculine – rather, their masculinity lies in figuring out how to be human” (607).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A deep and powerful insight is flogged, thrashed, and beaten to death. Susan Faludi is incredibly smart, and just doesn't seem to know when she's won the argument. I admire her-- and I would never, ever, debate her!