Faludi, Susan

Faludi, Susan

▪ American journalist and author
born April 18, 1959, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American feminist and award-winning journalist and author, known especially for her exploration of the depiction of women by the news media.

      Faludi first showed an interest in journalism in the fifth grade, when she conducted a poll indicating that most of her classmates opposed the war in Vietnam and supported legalized abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. While attending Harvard University (B.A., 1981) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Faludi served as managing editor of the Harvard Crimson, where she often wrote about women's issues, including sexual harassment on campus. She graduated summa cum laude and began a career in journalism. From 1981 to 1986 she was a copy clerk at The New York Times and a reporter for The Miami Herald and the Atlanta Constitution, and she was a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News from 1986 to 1988. In 1990 she joined the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal, and in 1991 she won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. That same year saw the publication of her influential book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. The book, which argues that the media distort news about women in order to retaliate against feminist advances, resulted in a National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1992. Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, a controversial examination of working-class male consciousness, appeared in 1999.

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