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...1960s through this decade brought similar admissions and accusations of failure and subsequent attempts to review, renew, and reorganize. In fact, in June 1980, the now-famous Susan C. Faludi ’81 begins her Commencement issue editorial by saying that “it has become a Harvard tradition of sorts to report periodically on the failures of advising.” Indeed...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi has never been afraid of controversial topics. Her two previous books, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, took on touchy issues of gender politics and feminism. Likewise, her provocative new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (Metropolitan), concerns sensitive cultural territory, the nation's myths about 9/11. Does Faludi worry about treading on sacred ground? "I'm used to being beaten up," she says wryly. "You try as best...
...Faludi: I was in Los Angeles, three hours behind. I was actually woken up by a friend, a journalist, who told me to turn on my television. I had this very curious dream that late that night, or early in the morning. I have no way of explaining this. I'm the farthest way from a New Age type of person, in spite of living in California. But it was a dream in which I was on an airplane and sitting next to another woman, a stranger. Two young men came up carrying pistols and shot twice. I remember...
Just hours after the Twin Towers were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Susan C. Faludi ’81 knew something fundamental had changed when a journalist who called her for a phone interview remarked, “This sure pushes feminism off the map!” That statement would prove to be portentous, the Pulitizer-Prize winning writer and feminist said at the Harvard Book Store on Oct. 5, because it signaled a substantial shift in the national psyche of the American society, press, and government.“The nation responded in ways…that...
There was, for example, Harvard psychologist William Pollack's Real Boys (1998), which asserted that contemporary boys are "scared and disconnected," "severely lagging" behind girls in both achievement and self-confidence. The following year, journalist Susan Faludi argued in Stiffed that the cold calculus of global economics was emasculating American men. In 2000 philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers blamed off-the-rails feminism for sparking The War Against Boys, and two years later writer Elizabeth Gilbert found The Last American Man living in a teepee in the Appalachian Mountains. By the time our boy was headed to third grade, magazine editors...