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Faludi's third book provides an unexpected but incisive assessment of the post-September 11th era, through the lens of gender relations. Sifting rhetoric and symbolism in the media, Faludi concludes that "women's independence had become implicated in our nation's failure to protect itself." Americans, she argues, reflexively sought comfort in "fables of female peril" and of rescue at the hands of macho vigilantes, while feminist views were ...