Susan Faludi

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Susan Faludi in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008.

Susan C. Faludi (born April 18, 1959 in Queens , New York City ) is an American journalist , author and Pulitzer Prize winner for background reporting .

Life

Faludi grew up in Yorktown Heights , Westchester County , New York . Her mother Merilyn was a housewife during their marriage and has worked as a writer and journalist since their divorce in 1976. Her father Steven was a photographer who immigrated from Hungary . In 1981, Faludi graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history and literature with the distinction of summa cum laude . She financed her studies with a grant from the Elks National Foundation . She wrote u. a. for The New York Times , Miami Herald , Atlanta Constitution , San Jose Mercury News , and The Wall Street Journal . In the 1980s she wrote various articles on feminism and the resistance to it. She recognized a certain system behind what she wrote down in her first book Backlash (1991).

Works (selection)

  • In Backlash (1991), Faludi argues that there was a “ backlash ” against feminism in the 1980s , particularly through the spread of negative stereotypes against women seeking employment. The book became a feminist classic; it was very strongly criticized by the conservative side and its factual accuracy was questioned. It got the National Book Critics Circle Award .
  • In Stiffed (1999), in German “Men - the betrayed sex” (Reinbek 2001), Faludi analyzes American men from the working class. She argues that while men remain in power, the majority of men also have little power. They would have been brought up with a traditional image of men, according to which they have to be big and strong, feed their families and work hard. According to Faludi, many of these men today find themselves unemployed or underpaid jobs, disaffected and abandoned by their wives. The basic thesis of the book is that both sexes have been damaged by changes in American society. Stiffed was also a response to the harsh criticism Faludi received after Backlash was released. It received less attention in general and was viewed with disapproval by both neoconservatives and feminists, mainly for political reasons.
  • In 2007 The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America ( ISBN 978-0-8050-8692-8 ), "a scathing critique of the media's response to 9/11".
  • In 2016, In the Darkroom appeared , in which the author tells the story of her father Steven Faludi, who underwent a sex change operation at the age of 76 . The American original edition was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize 2017. The book was published in German in 2018 under the title The Pearl Earrings My Father. Story of a reinvention in the translation by Judith Elze and Anne Emmert at dtv.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Dietrich Fischer and Erika J. Fischer: Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000. KG Saur , Munich 2002, p. 67.
  2. ^ Clifford Thompson: World authors 1990-1995. HW Wilson, New York, 1999. p. 863: "Susan Faludi was born on April 18, 1959, in New York City, the only daughter of Steven Faludi, a Hungarian-born Jewish photographer who had spent part of his childhood hiding from the Nazis, and Marilyn Faludi, a writer and editor who had been a homemaker until her divorce in 1976. "
  3. ↑ 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute Fellows: Susan Faludi . ( Memento of August 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 19, 2010.
  4. ↑ Prodigal Sons of Prodigal Fathers . Stiffed reviews “Friday” . January 28, 2000.
  5. ↑ ″ The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy ″ in Post-9/11 America Review and Conversation with SF on AlterNet by Onnesha Roychoudhuri, November 3, 2007
  6. ^ Jury statement on the Pulitzer Prize website. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1991 Winners and Finalists. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
  8. ^ All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists . Retrieved December 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Faludi, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faludi, Susan C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York City