{"product_id":"stiffed-susan-faludi-9780380720453","title":"Stiffed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 20th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller features a new introduction from the author!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStiffed 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Faludi","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":46144406225139,"sku":"8880002493992","price":13.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/stiffed-susan-faludi-9780380720453","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}