Waging war on the home front
Ruth Pollard;12/4/08
After the Twin Towers fell, Susan Faludi saw conservative commentators open a second front, against women, in the war on terrorism. “I haven’t been called morally deranged,” Susan Faludi says. “At least, not to my face.” The feminist author and journalist, who has been chronicling what she calls the war against women for the best part of two decades, has dodged many a verbal bullet. But what she observed as the Twin Towers crumpled in New York on September 11 defied belief. Almost immediately, the women’s movement was labelled “an unaffordable luxury”, the terrorist assault “a blow to feminism”, and the new climate of danger threatening enough to “quiet the anti-male agitation we’ve endured for so long”.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/waging-war-on-the-home-front/2008/04/11/1207856831648.html
Tags: Gender Issues, Terror, USA, Womens Rights