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Stiffed:
The Betrayal of the American Man
by Susan Faludi > William Morrow and Company
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There
are few more flaccid cultural barometers than
the New Republic, so it was a shock to see its
recent cover proclaiming that "Men Don't
Need Susan Faludi to Pump Them Up." Inside
was James Wolcott's predictably canine attack
on Faludi's new book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of
the American Man. Faludi's guide to the sorry
state of masculinity is guaranteed to make a backlasher
like Wolcott see red meat. Citing the enormous
popularity of wrestling and bad-boy icons like
Howard Stern, Wolcott concludes that there is
no crisis of masculinity.
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Tea
by Stacey D'Erasmo > Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill > $21.95 |
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Tea,
the first novel written by Stacey D'Erasmo,
is the deeply appealing story of Isabel
Gold, an artist, feminist, and daughter
of a suicide. Early in the book, we see
Isabel as a child, unable to bring herself
to touch her mother since she admitted wanting
to die. Yet she fears this must be "dangerous,"
so when her mother falls asleep, Isabel,
touches her "all over . . . with her
eyes, for good luck." This unfulfilled
desire to heal haunts Isabel as she grows
up and searches out her identity. She is
troubled by the question: at what moment
could her mother have been saved? Again
and again, the answer is: "from the
beginning and never."
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All
About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks > William Morrow and
Company > $22.00 |
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The
most surprising thing about bell hooks' new book,
All About Love, is that she wrote it at all. Although
she has never shied away from talking about her
family life and sometimes star-crossed love affairs
as a way of illuminating her continuing journey
to feminist enlightenment, this volume is her
most personal. Having identified a crisis of immense
proportions, namely "our nation's turning
away from love," hooks eschews talk of politics
and patriarchy and urges us "to walk on love's
path" as a means of transforming our world.
And what does All About Love tell us about the
nature of love? As it turns out, less than we
might hope from a woman whose 17 previous books
established her as a major voice in American feminism.
All About Love feels like what it is--a first
step.
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Maneuvers:
The International Politics of Militarizing Women's
Lives
by Cynthia Enloe > University of California Press
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Military
matters have long been seen--by both champions
and critics--as a purely masculine project. Yet
militarism affects millions of women--and not
just the relatively few who have joined the armed
forces. In this expansive follow-up to her 1983
book, Does Khaki Become You?, Cynthia Enloe examines
the "militarized experiences of women as
prostitutes, rape victims, mothers, wives, nurses,
and feminist activists," as well as service
members. "To invest one's curiosity solely
in women as soldiers," she writes, "is
to treat the militarization of so many other women
as normal."
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