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
liberation
Women are enslaved by their own liberation.
goal accused
My goal is to be accused of being strident.
heart argument sexism
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.
voice forever body
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.
women justice feminism
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
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.
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.
movement wonder neighborhood
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
winning simple effort
the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.
feminism lists problem
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.
argument unhappiness responsible
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
worst-enemy enemy movement
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
agenda asks choose forced private public women
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
certainly motivated wanting
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.