Susan Faludi, “The Terror Dream”

Michiko Kautani’s review of this book in the NYT starts out: “This, sadly, is the sort of tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned book that gives feminism a bad name.” Dang, and I thought it was the humorlessness and comfortable shoes that did that, but I have to admit, I haven’t read this entire book yet, only the first chapter. Somebody at The New Yorker seemed to like it a bit better, as did a previous NYT reviewer. In any event, a short interview with Faludi was recently published in The Harvard Crimson (via Feral Scholar, where comments provide links to interviews with Faludi here and here).

–Ann Bartow