Susan Faludi Poradie kníh

Keď sa feministická spisovateľka Susan Faludi dozvie, že jej sedemdesiatšesťročný otec, s ktorým sa už dávno odcudzili a odsťahoval sa do Maďarska, podstúpil operáciu na zmenu pohlavia, vydáva sa na nezvyčajnú cestu za zmyslom identity v modernom svete i v znepokojivej minulosti vlastnej rodiny. Čo má spoločné tento nový rodič, ktorý je teraz „kompletná žena“, s tým mlčanlivým, výbušným, ba až násilníckym otcom, ktorého poznala, či s fotografom, ktorý si vybudoval kariéru na úprave fotografií?

In this original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, journalist Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks of that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged 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? The answer, she finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation 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.--From publisher description.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique." -- Newsweek.