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)

[edit] Clarification?

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


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)

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)

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