Susan Faludi Summary

In the following excerpted review essay, Rapping finds shortcomings in Backlash's dogmatic feminist agenda and superficial analysis of complex, and often contradictory, social trends. According... Read more

In the following review of Backlash, Eberstadt provides an extended negative critique in which she cites a series of contradictions and weaknesses in Faludi's assertions. If feminists of the 19... Read more

In the following review, Fink offers a positive summary of Backlash. Susan Faludi’s account of the backlash movement [in Backlash] is thorough indeed. Although the war against American women ma... Read more

In the following review, Chinni offers unfavorable assessment of Stiffed. If 1990s America offers one overarching lesson, it is that the cultural labels we once used to define our societal tribes are ... Read more

In the following essay, Lacher provides an overview of Faludi's career and the media attention surrounding Backlash and Stiffed, including Faludi's own comments on her life and work. If ... Read more

In the following negative review of Stiffed, Decter derides Faludi's presentation of American men as victims of postwar consumer culture. Six years ago, as she tells us in her new book, Susan F... Read more

In the following positive review of Stiffed, Flanders commends Faludi's journalism, though finds shortcomings in her focus on working-class men and the importance of male stereotypes. Flanders ... Read more

In the following review, Wilson-Smith offers a positive assessment of Stiffed, though notes that Faludi's sympathy for brutal men is occasionally too generous. Susan Faludi likes men. Her affec... Read more

In the following extended review, Wolcott offers a negative evaluation of Stiffed. “Faludi's tome,” writes Wolcott, “is an almost self-parodying product of crisis-mongering... Read more

In the following unfavorable review of Stiffed, Willis objects to Faludi's nostalgic stereotypes of masculinity and her thesis that male anxiety stems from manipulative mass culture and paterna... Read more

In the following negative review of Stiffed, Kimball finds Faludi's description of a generalized “male crisis” unconvincing and contends that Faludi has merely applied the feminis... Read more

In the following review of Backlash, Young finds shortcomings in Faludi's “selective treatment of facts” and distorted conclusions about the current state of women's libera... Read more

In the following review, Bennetts offers high praise for Backlash. I came away from Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women feeling not only that it should be required reading for all Amer... Read more

In the following negative review of Backlash, Gallagher attacks Faludi's feminist perspective, particularly her support for divorce and her unwillingness to admit the importance of children and... Read more

In the following excerpted review essay, Doody offers a positive assessment of Backlash and further confirms Faludi's assertions about the insidious cultural and economic assault on women... Read more