Word: faludi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-known feminist author Susan C. Faludi '81 issued an S.O.S. on behalf of American men last night in Sanders Theatre, where she spoke before an audience of about 500 Harvard community members...
...Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of the best-selling 1991 book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women returned to Harvard, where she earned her undergraduate degree, to talk about her latest work, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American...
Backlash attacked the notion that feminism eradicated discrimination against women. Now Faludi has turned her attention to the plight of American...
During the course of her hour-long speech, which was followed by a question-and-answer period, Faludi expounded upon the thesis of Stiffed, arguing that neither men nor feminists are to blame for the current crisis of manliness in America...
...Rather, Faludi said, "men have suffered layers of betrayal," the deepest of which is the demise of utilitarian society and its replacement by a consumer-driven culture in which "celebrity and sex-value are all that matter...