Empire’s Damsels

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by Susan Faludi
Metropolitan Books, 2007
368 pages, $26

With her latest offering Susan Faludi, author of Backlash and Stiffed, draws upon her previous insights into the causes and consequences of the antifeminist backlash of the last three decades, applying them to the era of the “war on terror.”