Editing Susan Faludi (section)

=== ''The Terror Dream'' ===
In ''[[The Terror Dream]]'', Faludi analyzes the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks]] in light of prior American experience going back to insecurity on the historical [[American frontier]] such as in [[King Philip's War|Metacom's Rebellion]]. Faludi argues that 9/11 reinvigorated in America a climate that is hostile to women. Women are viewed as weak and best suited to playing support roles for the men who protect them from attack.<ref>{{cite book| last = Faludi| first = Susan| title = The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America| date = October 2, 2007| publisher = Metropolitan Books| isbn = 978-0-8050-8692-8| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/terrordreamfeara00falu}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/opinion/07faludi.html/ | work=The New York Times | title=America's Guardian Myths | first=Susan | last=Faludi | date=September 7, 2007 | access-date=May 24, 2010}}</ref> The book was called a "tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name" by ''The New York Times'' principal book reviewer [[Michiko Kakutani]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Michiko Kakutani |date=October 23, 2007 |title=9/11 Is Seen as Leading to an Attack on Women |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/books/23kaku.html |newspaper=The New York Times}} Review of {{cite book |author=Susan Faludi |title=The Terror Dream|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780805086928 |url=https://archive.org/details/terrordreamfeara00falu |url-access=registration }}</ref> Another ''New York Times'' journalist, [[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]], stated "In ''The Terror Dream'' a skeptical Faludi reads everything, second-guesses everybody, watches too much talking-head TV and emerges from the archives and the pulp id like an [[exorcist]] and a [[Penthesilea]]."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Leonard-t.html|title=Macho Security State|author=John Leonard|author-link=John Leonard (American critic)|date=October 14, 2007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Sarah Churchwell in ''The Guardian'' says, "Ultimately Faludi is guilty of her own exaggerations and mythmaking, strong-arming her argument into submission."<ref name="Sweetheart">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/22/politics|title=We're at war, sweetheart|date=March 22, 2008|work=The Guardian|quote=The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi, a persuasive analysis of post-9/11 sexism, is in danger of losing its way, says Sarah Churchwell}}</ref> On the other hand, ''Kirkus Reviews'' claimed that the book was a "rich, incisive analysis of the surreality of American life in the wake of 9/11" and that it was "brilliant, illuminating and essential."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/susan-faludi/the-terror-dream/|title=Review: The Terror Dream|work=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> Reviewing the book for ''Fresh Air'', Maureen Corrigan praised Faludi for her "characteristic restraint and depth of research" and for her "rigorous insistence on truth".<ref name=NPRReview>{{cite news |last1=Corrigan|first1=Maureen|title=Susan Faludi Slams Media, Myths in 'Terror Dream'|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16042812|publisher=NPR|date=November 6, 2007}}</ref>