10 Facts About Susan Faludi

Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American feminist, journalist, and author.

Susan Faludi won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc.

Susan Faludi was awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for In the Darkroom, which was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

Susan Faludi was born to Marilyn, a homemaker and journalist, and Stefanie Faludi, who was a photographer.

Stefanie Susan Faludi had emigrated from Hungary, was Jewish, and a survivor of the Holocaust; she eventually came out as a transgender woman and died in 2015.

Since January 2013, Susan Faludi has been a contributing editor at The Baffler magazine in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Susan Faludi asserted that many who argue "a woman's place is in the home, looking after the kids" are hypocrites, since they have wives who are working mothers or, as women, they are themselves working mothers.

Susan Faludi argues that while many of those in power are men, most individual men have little power.

Changes in American society have affected both men and women, Susan Faludi concludes, and it is wrong to blame individual men for class differences, or for plain differences in individual luck and ability, that they did not cause and from which men and women suffer alike.

Susan 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.