Talk:Susan Faludi

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This entry reads a lot like a fan site, particularly with all the gushing book and personal reviews. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.243.137.162 (talk) 04:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification?[edit]

  • Faludi, Susan (October 1, 1991). Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Crown. ISBN 0517576988.
Backlash argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women. Faludi asserted that many who argue "a woman's place is in the home, looking after the kids" are hypocrites, since they (or their wives) are exactly like the women they are criticizing. This work won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991.

I don't know if I am being dense here but the above makes no sense semantically, by following the link to the book page I got the gist of what the book was about, but by reading the above paragraph I was left scratching my head. Maybe someone who has read it, or at least is more familiar with it than I am can fix it? 24.138.22.57 (talk) 18:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC) Jawn[reply]


The addition by User:Gretchen of a lk from this talk page's article to Rule of thumb has no apparent justification now (nor had it any at the time nor did her contemporaneous edit there add a basis). If Faludi mentions it, a see-also is in any case IMO an unacceptable way of responding to that.
I killed the lk.
--Jerzy·t 15:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

So is she Hungarian-born or Queens-born? -Sean Curtin 05:52, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If you are not American (US citizen) perhaps you aren't aware that in the United States it is common to refer to someone as being "Hungarian American" if they are of Hungarian descent. Same for all others. Example, I am Italian American, even though I've never stepped foot in Italy. I've heard this is a peculiar Americanism.
By the way, I came to this talk page for the same issue, but from a different perspective. I had no idea she was Hungarian American. With the last name "Faludi" I had always assumed that she was, like me, Italian American. Who knew? -- Andrew Parodi 10:57, 20 November, 2006 (UTC)

Susan and I were close friends as we grew up in Yorktown together. Re her heritage, both parents were from Europe, her father from Hungary and mother from England. Her father was Jewish and her mother Protestant. Neither practiced their faiths.

Should the citation for Backlash be for the first edition, not the most recent? A casual reading of the page as it is now would suggest that it's the most recent work listed rather than the first. Is there a policy on this? 207.198.239.111 18:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. It should refer to the original in 1991. I made the change. - Reaverdrop (talk/nl) 18:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC)\\[reply]

Neutral?[edit]

"In The Terror Dream Faludi analyzes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in light of prior American experience going back to insecurity on the historical American frontier such as in Metacom's Rebellion. Faludi argues that 9/11 reinvigorated in America a climate that is hostile to women. Women are viewed as weak and best suited to playing support roles for the men who protect them from attack.[3][4] The book was called a "tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name" by the New York Times principal book reviewer Michiko Kakutani[5]. Sarah Churchwell in the Guradian says, "Ultimately Faludi is guilty of her own exaggerations and mythmaking, strong-arming her argument into submission." [6] Other reviews were positive."

This is the section on Faludi's book, "The Terror Dream".... is it just me, or is it kind of negative? Given than other reviews were positive, why were two negative opinions given centre-stage?

And now even the useless sop of "Other views were positive." has been reviewed. I am tagging this for a NPOV check. 198.204.141.208 (talk) 22:03, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
First let me say that I really enjoyed this book; it changed my world-view a lot. Now that that's disclosed, I can guess why Kakutani said that. Faludi criticizes them up and down in the book, as well as editorializers and proprietors of many a Western newspaper, the Guardian among them I'm sure. This is obviously not NPOV. Every bad review should be matched by a good one, or no reviews should be quoted or linked at all. I'll work on finding a more even-handed review to mention. What makes a man turn neutral? (talk) 12:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Consulting reference 10 suggests mis-attribution?[edit]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dialogues/features/1997/revisionist_feminism/_5.html The above seems to me to be the correct link to *faludi*'s comment. The link previously provided (to _4.html) has the work "deconstruction" in it, but does not seem to be by Faludi (but by unspecified ‘authors’). Forgive me if I'm mistaken: I find Slate's comment system rather opaque. ... and I'm a total noob to WP editing/policies. Perhaps an experience wikipedian/researcher can double check for me / make appropriate corrections. —Richard Pinneau — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoveCalmQuiet (talk • contribs) 12:30, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Incorrect Source[edit]

"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.[22]"

I looked at the source in [22]. Neither the name "Gloria Steinem" nor the name "Naomi Wolf" appear. Thus, the source is incorrect. Either a correct source should be found or the sentence should be deleted. Ebw343 (talk) 14:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Susan Faludi — Graduate Education & formative anti-’feminist‘ attitudes[edit]

Susan Faludi‘s Harvard education and accolades are well documented here. She was a graduate student at Princeton, although I’m not sure what degree she earned. Could the authors please address this important but ignored element of her background? She first became outspoken in the national media versus Princeton women‘s Take Back The Night movement (safety demands for lighting and campus police call boxes, etc). Because this was her debut in the national spotlight and spawned her first book written while at Princeton‘s Graduate School, the omission of this period deserves documentary comment. 184.21.67.220 (talk) 20:48, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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