Fear and Fantasy in Post–9/11 America
Susan Faludi
Monday, 12 Nov 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She is also the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Her new book, The Terror Dream examines the post-9/11 outpourings in the media and popular culture and how America's fear of home-soil terrorism has been the foundation of first one war and then another. A book signing and the Women's Studies Program 30th Anniversary reception will follow.----
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Anthropology
- Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
- Catt Associates
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- English
- George Gund Fund
- LAS Miller Funds
- Margaret Sloss Women's Center
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Sociology
- Speech Communications
- Women's Studies Program
- YWCA - Ames/ISU
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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