Wrote many articles about feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement, and a 1991 book titled “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”.

Faludi's father, Steven Faludi (born Friendman) was a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor. After decades of estrangement from his daughter, he reached out to her in 2004 as Stefánie, having come out as a transgender woman. He died in 2015.