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The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America

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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.

In The Terror Dream, "Faludi provides stunning and depressing evidence of a concerted effort to silence women and roll back women's rights in the wake of 9/11... She brings in a Mack truck's worth of testimony and proof" (Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Times).

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  • Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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  • Print Length: 484 Pages
  • File Size: 30 KB

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