Every decade or so, a young, very smart, often photogenic woman comes along and produces a book that identifies an ugly fact of female life in America. Susan Brownmiller, Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi have all contributed to this canon. Now attempting to join them is Ariel Levy, who presents us with the problem of Read More
They have professions. They have their own money. They are attractive and are at an age that, in men at least, is considered the prime of life. They are put-together, poised, admirable. And then their men take up with younger or more pliant females and we get out the old evolutionary psychology textbooks and say, Read More
Susan Faludi-whose 1991 best seller, Backlash : The Undeclared War Against American Women , gave women who came of age in the feminist-unfriendly 80′s the kind of “Whoa, so I’m not crazy” moment of enlightenment that Betty Friedan once gave their mothers-was on the phone from her house in the Hollywood Hills. She was packing Read More
