Susan Faludi

Susan Faludi

Faludi in 2008
Born (1959-04-18) April 18, 1959
Queens, New York, U.S.
Education Harvard University
Occupation journalist
Notable credit(s) Pulitzer Prize-winner

Susan Charlotte Faludi (born April 18, 1959) is an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She was also awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for In the Darkroom.[1]

Biographical information

Faludi was born in 1959 in Queens, New York, and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York. She was born to Marilyn (Lanning), a homemaker and journalist, and Stefánie Faludi (then known as Steven Faludi, and born István Friedman), who was a photographer.[2][3] Stefánie Faludi had emigrated from Hungary, was Jewish, and a survivor of the Holocaust; she eventually came out as a transgender woman and later died in 2015.[2] Faludi's maternal grandfather was also Jewish.[2] Susan graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. summa cum laude in 1981, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Throughout the eighties she wrote several articles on feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement. Seeing a pattern emerge, Faludi wrote Backlash, which was released in late 1991. In 2008-2009, Faludi was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,[4] and during the 2013-2014 academic year, she was the Tallman Scholar in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Bowdoin College.[5] She is married to fellow author Russ Rymer.[6] Since January 2013, Faludi has been a contributing editor at The Baffler magazine in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Major works

Faludi and feminism

Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a "rigid, monolithic feminist orthodoxy", noting in response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion.[18]

Like Gloria Steinem,[19][20] Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, "There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful."[21] She has also characterized "academic feminism's love affair with deconstructionism" as "toothless", and warned that it "distract[s] from constructive engagement with the problems of the public world".[18]

Bibliography

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Books

Essays and reporting

See also

References

  1. "C. E. Morgan". 2016 Kirkus Prize Winner in Fiction. February 29, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Susan Faludi. "Susan Faludi: getting to know my father, the woman | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  3. "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Nonfiction Classics for Students". Encyclopedia.com. 1959-04-18. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  4. Susan Faludi's Radcliffe Webpage: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2009sfaludi.aspx
  5. "Bowdoin Welcomes Writer Susan Faludi as Tallman Scholar," http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2013/06/bowdoin-welcomes-writer-susan-faludi-as-tallmann-scholar/
  6. "AT HOME WITH: Susan Faludi and Russ Rymer; Sympathy for Men, Empathy With One" - http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/garden/at-home-with-susan-faludi-and-russ-rymer-sympathy-for-men-empathy-with-one.html?pagewanted=all
  7. Faludi, Susan (October 1, 1991). Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Crown. ISBN 0-517-57698-8.
  8. The Backlash Book Club: https://medium.com/matter/welcome-to-backlash-book-club-e8b8c38d7ba#.p5y6lsrys
  9. 25 Bestsellers from the last 25 years you simply must make time to read: http://www.bustle.com/articles/113506-25-bestsellers-from-the-last-25-years-you-simply-must-make-time-to-reread
  10. Faludi, Susan (October 1, 2000). Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-380-72045-0.
  11. Faludi, Susan (October 2, 2007). The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-8692-7.
  12. Faludi, Susan (September 7, 2007). "America's Guardian Myths". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  13. New York Times Book Review, 10-23-2007
  14. "We're at war, sweetheart". The Guardian. 22 March 2008. The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi, a persuasive analysis of post-9/11 sexism, is in danger of losing its way, says Sarah Churchwell
  15. "Review: The Terror Dream". Kirkus.
  16. Corrigan, Maureen (6 November 2007). "Susan Faludi Slams Media, Myths in 'Terror Dream'". NPR.
  17. Cronn, Kirstin (2016-06-14). "IN THE DARKROOM by Susan Faludi". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  18. 1 2 Slate, May 13, 1997. "Revisionist Feminism"
  19. Mother Jones. "Gloria Steinem"
  20. "Feminism? It's Hardly Begun"
  21. Conniff, Ruth. The Progressive, June, 1993. Susan Faludi Interview

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