In this most original examination of America’ s post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country’ s psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock 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? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling “ security moms, ” swaggering presidential gun-slingers, and the “ rescue” of a female soldier cast as a “ helpless little girl” ?
 
The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by non-white “ 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— as they did on September 11.
 
Brilliant and important, "The Terror Dream" shows what 9/11 revealed about us— and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

• ISBN: 1427202184
• ISBN-13: 9781427202185
• Author : Susan Faludi
• Read by : Beth McDonald
• Category : Social Science - Anthropology - Cultural
• Language : English
• Format: 10 CDs - Search for other formats
• Abridgement: Unabridged
• Running Time: 12 hours
• Publication Date: 10/1/2007
• Publisher Imprint: MacMillan Audio
• Price ($AUD): $62.95


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