Susan Faludi

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Susan Faludi

When Gretchen Whitmer ran for Michigan governor in 2018, a debate coach advised her to draw a smiley face at the top of her notes, so that at the podium she’d remember not to frown. Instead, she jotted down a reference to a raunchy joke about a menstruating woman and her horny boyfriend—the punch line ends with “Shark Week”—because it reliably made her laugh.

Jul 29, 2024 | laweekly.com | Susan Faludi

Already the story of Bill Clinton's alleged “sex scandal” has been framed as a clear-cut case of the sex war, with wronged women who aren't gonna suffer in silence on one side, and on the other, heartless male scoundrels who are doing their best to clap their slimy hands over the women's mouths. As literary agent Lucianne Goldberg told the February 2 New Yorker, her friend Linda Tripp woke up in a “cold fury” because “there's a level of misogyny here that's shocking.

Jul 25, 2024 | nybooks.com | Susan Faludi

For the last century and a half the American female journalist has existed in a state of double consciousness. She could never report the news without her existence as a reporter being regarded as newsworthy, either an emblem of the profession’s progress or proof of its fall.

Mar 12, 2024 | realvail.com | Martha Burk |Susan Faludi

It’s 2024, but it feels like we’re back in 1991 this Women’s History Month. Back then, President George H.W. Bush was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Ronald Reagan by continuing to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench, and Roe v. Wade was expected to fall. Radical anti-abortion activism had gained prominence and strength. Popular media was awash with stories pushing the myth that women were dissatisfied and unhappy — and feminist ideals of women’s empowerment were to blame.

Mar 4, 2024 | favs.news | Susan Faludi

Commentary by Martha Burk | OtherWordsIt’s 2024, but it feels like we’re back in 1991 this Women’s History Month. Back then, President George H.W. Bush was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Ronald Reagan by continuing to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench, and Roe v. Wade was expected to fall. Radical anti-abortion activism had gained prominence and strength.