苏珊·法露迪

苏珊·法露迪（英语：Susan Faludi，1959年4月18日—）是一位美国记者和女性主义者，1991年普立兹释义新闻奖（Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting）得主，因报导喜互惠公司的杠杆收购行为获奖。

经历

法露迪生于1959年的纽约皇后区，但在同州的约克镇高地（Yorktown Heights）长大。她是个犹太人。苏珊·法露迪的母亲是位记者、家庭主妇，也在纽约大学进修；父亲是位匈牙利摄影师，也是犹太人大屠杀的幸存者。法露迪1981年时自哈佛大学毕业，在校时她曾写过校园刊物《哈佛克里姆森报》（The Harvard Crimson），毕业后也顺利成为新闻记者，曾为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《圣荷西信使报》、《亚特兰大日报》（The Atlanta Journal-Constitution）和《迈阿密前锋报》（The Miami Herald）等报纸写过文章。她在整个1980年代撰写过许多关于女性主义，及女性主义运动所遭遇到阻力的文章，待她发现其中规律后，便在1991年出版《反挫——谁与女人为敌？》（Backlash; the undeclared war against American women）一书。2008年至2009年间出任拉德克利夫学院研究员。法露迪目前与作家拉斯·赖默（Russ Rymer）同居。

Susan Charlotte Faludi (born April 18, 1959) is an American journalist and feminist author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway, a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance." She was awarded the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction in 2016 for In the Darkroom, which was also a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Early life and education

Susan Faludi was born in 1959 in Queens, New York, and grew up in Yorktown Heights. She was born to Marilyn Lanning, a homemaker and journalist, and Stefánie Faludi, a photographer. Stefánie Faludi was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who had emigrated from Hungary. In 2004 she came out to Susan as a transgender woman, and died in 2015. Susan Faludi has dual US & Hungarian citizenship. Her maternal grandfather was also Jewish.

Faludi attended Harvard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and served as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. She graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.

Career

Faludi became a professional journalist, writing for The New York Times, the Miami Herald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

During the 1980s, Faludi wrote several articles on feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement. Seeing a pattern emerge, she wrote her first book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, about this manufactured media resistance to feminism, which was released in late 1991.

She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report in The Wall Street Journal on the leveraged buyout of Safeway.

In 2008–2009, Faludi was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and during the 2013–2014 academic year, she was the Tallman Scholar in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Bowdoin College. Since January 2013, Faludi has been a contributing editor at The Baffler.

In 1996, Faludi was awarded honoris causa membership in Omicron Delta Kappa at SUNY Plattsburgh. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University.

Books

Backlash

Susan Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argues that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women. Faludi asserted that many who argue that women should stay home to look after children are hypocrites, since they have wives who are working mothers or, as women, are themselves working mothers. This work won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1991. The book has become a classic feminist text.

In 2014, a public book club by Matter and MSNBC was started, where writers including Jill Abramson, Katha Pollitt, Lena Dunham, and Roxane Gay, reread chapters of the book and examined their contemporary relevance. In September 2015, Bustle included Backlash among its list of "25 Bestsellers from the last 25 years you simply must make time to read." Reflecting on the legacy of the book in The New Yorker in July 2022, Molly Fischer called Backlash "an era-defining phenomenon" that "presented a damningly methodical assessment of women’s status in Reagan-era America." Backlash has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German, Finnish, Korean, and Italian.