Susan Faludi

Stiffed

September 27, 1999

In Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi, the acclaimed author of Backlash, the convention-smashing manifesto on women's embattled status, turns her impressive powers of reporting and analysis to the problems of men and comes up with a revolutionary diagnosis. Men's problems aren't the product of biology, or of such trumped-up enemies as feminism and affirmative action, but of a modern social tragedy. By listening to men's stories in their own voices, by taking them on their own terms, Faludi uncovers a buried history - the untold story of how America made a glittering set of promises to the men of the baby-boom generation...and proceeded to break every one of them.

Stiffed is a major reassessment of what it is to be a man in modern America. The national discussion it will surely provoke could shatter the old paradigm of men versus women and lay the groundwork for a culture that affirms the needs of everyone.

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, DoubleTake, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.

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