February 25, 2000
Contact: Nicole Skalla, Student Union Activities, (785) 864-3477
LAWRENCE-Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi will speak on her latest book, "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in 120 Budig Hall at the University of Kansas.
The lecture will be preceded by a book signing at 7:15 p.m. in the atrium next to 120 Budig Hall, and will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Faludi is a contributing editor for Newsweek and won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism with the Wall Street Journal in 1991. Her first book, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction in 1992.
"Backlash" explores feminism and women's place in society, while "Stiffed" probes issues facing men in America. In "Stiffed," Faludi writes that "the problem men and women face these days isn't simply each other's fault. Women's independence isn't men's real enemy, nor is 'innate' male aggression women's prime affliction." Her view is that men are at the mercy of various cultural forces, including media and the decline of the traditional male role, that define their place in society for them.
Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for non-students and are available at the SUA Box Office, Level 4, Kansas Union. The lecture is open to the public. The event is sponsored by KU's Student Union Activities, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and Panhellenic Association.