Word: faludi
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...over for promotions, Robertson does very little to discuss the complex problems women at the Times face today. Most of these include problems of subtle discrimination: male-biased career tracks and value systems, family and lifestyle issues and biased definitions of news. Robertson's book is no Backlash; Susan Faludi's book makes a contribution to the current debate over difference and equality which the feminist of today are trying to resolve. Robertson merely tries to make the women in her life, "larger than life"; Robertson is, after all, a Timeswoman. In that respect, she is no different from...
JUST AS THE REASONED grammar of the Holocaust ad, Peninsula and "political correctness" tends to efface individual and personal differences, liberal arguments for multiculturalism have too often emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call...
Gilligan has been criticized for what Pulit zer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi, in her recent book, Backlash, calls "Victorian echoes...
...Gilligan may have left herself wide open to misinterpretation," Faludi wrote. "After disavowing generalizations about either sex, she seems to make them herself." Faludi also felt that the backgrounds and situations of the subjects Gilligan examined were not stressed enough. "Gilligan's 'studies' were not exactly drawn from ideal demographic samples," she wrote...
Zella Luria, a Tufts University psychology researcher who is cited in Faludi's book, agreed with her criticism. "I see no data to warrant the message that Carol Gilligan can tell us," Kuria said in an interview. "I find it psychologically very native to find that our experience is unencumbered knowledge we get from our innards...