Editing Susan Faludi (section)

== Faludi and feminism ==
Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a "rigid, monolithic feminist 'orthodoxy,'"<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dialogues/features/1997/revisionist_feminism/_4.html|title=Revisionist Feminism: Entry 3|last=Faludi|first=Susan|date=May 13, 1997|access-date=September 29, 2018|magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|department=Dialogues: E-mail debates of newsworthy topics|issn=1091-2339}}</ref> noting in response that she has disagreed with [[Gloria Steinem]] about pornography and [[Naomi Wolf]] about abortion.

Like [[Gloria Steinem]],<ref>''Mother Jones''. [https://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1995/11/gorney.html/ "Gloria Steinem"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231181057/https://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1995/11/gorney.html |date=December 31, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Melissa Denes |date=January 16, 2005 |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/17/gender.melissadenes |title=Feminism? It's Hardly Begun}}</ref> Faludi has criticized the [[obscurantism]] prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, "There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of [[deconstruction]] or [[New Historicism]] or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful."<ref>Conniff, Ruth (June 1993). [https://archive.today/20120630055744/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n6_v57/ai_13773326/pg_2/ "Susan Faludi – feminist author – Interview"], ''The Progressive''.</ref> She has also characterized "academic feminism's love affair with deconstructionism" as "toothless", and warned that it "distract[s] from constructive engagement with the problems of the public world".<ref name=":0" />