The Betrayal of the Modern Man.
At the start of the nineties, an author put her finger on the problem bedevilling women, and struck a chord with millions of readers all over the world. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist and bestselling author of 'Backlash' breaks new ground again in this timely and eye-opening book, as she turns her attention to men.
At the end of the millennium it is men who are in crisis. Even in the world that they are supposed to own and run, Faludi finds that men just as much as women are at the mercy of cultural forces that distort their lives and plague our culture. Her journey through the modern masculine landscape takes her deep into the lives of individual men whose accounts reveal the agonised heart of the male dilemma.
'Stiffed' brings us vividly into the world of men, from industrial workers to modern war veterans, from astronauts to porn actors, from sports fans to evangelical husbands, from politicians to young troubled "bad" boys - whose sense that they've lost jobs, skills, roles, wives, teams and a secure future is only one symptom of a wider betrayal.
With her sharp historical sense, meticulous documentation and lively, probing reportage, Faludi uncovers the economic, cultural and political roots of the crisis, and unpacks the media messages sent to men in the last twenty-five years. Confounding our expectations and overturning received notions of political correctness, she puts herself in their shoes, and gives real men in a tough world the chance to talk back.
