Faludi, Fight Club, and Phallic Masculinity: Exploring the Emasculating Economics of Patriarchy
Author(s)
Clark, J. Michael
Abstract
The article makes socio-economic connections with masculinity in Susan Faludi’s (1999) Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and the movie Fight Club. We need more liberating alternatives, alternatives that move us toward an economy of scale and of place that renews and sustains our connectedness, our community with human and nonhuman alike. We might begin in academia, for example, by urging our male colleagues in the field of economics to develop greener alternatives to the current globalizing market ideology of consumerism. More specifically, still, as men, we need to (re)construct identities for ourselves other than that of “consumer.”
