Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi
Susan Charlotte Faludiis 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"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 April 1959
CountryUnited States of America
worst-enemy enemy movement
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
children home looks
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.
powerful demand return
The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.
men eras thieves
The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
marriage panic single-women
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.
marriage female illness
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
children divorce men
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
strong men heroism
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
rights justice feminism
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.
moving culture fluffy
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
determination children self
All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.
book responsibility fighting
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.
years america justice
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
women justice feminism
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.