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Into this rhetorical arena comes Susan Faludi, 32, a soft-spoken, sharp- penned, Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Wall Street Journal who spent four years writing Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, published by Crown in October. In 552 crowded pages, Faludi constructs a thesis out of alarming though sometimes selective use of statistics bound together with ideological glue, designed to explain why many women turned against feminism in the 1980s. Not only has her book become an unexpected best seller; it has also become a staple topic on the op-ed pages, one of those landmark books that...
More interesting still, after months halfway down the best-seller list, Faludi moves to No. 2 this week -- right behind a new book by Gloria Steinem. Many critics dismissed Revolution from Within, Steinem's treatise on the political implications of the self-esteem movement, as an exercise in squishy new-age thumb-sucking. But as she tours shopping malls, Steinem is being mobbed by crowds that, according to one bookstore owner, exceed those of Oliver North and Vanna White, the backlash icons of American manhood and womanhood. Something must have happened in the climate of relations between men and women...
What readers may be looking for is an explanation for why, as reported by a TIME/CNN poll last month, 63% of American women do not consider themselves feminists. The answer according to Faludi is not that women are finally free and equal and don't need a movement anymore; or that feminism's leaders, for all their efforts, somehow alienated their constituency; or that finally having choices allows women the luxury of second thoughts. Instead, she argues, women reject feminism because of a backlash against it -- a highly ; effective, often insidious campaign to discredit its goals, distort its message...
...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...