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A former university [[philosophy]] professor in [[Ethics]], |
A former university [[philosophy]] professor in [[Ethics]], |
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she is a resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]]. |
she is a resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]]. |
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Christina Hoff Sommers argues that academic "[[gender feminism]]" is opposed to mainstream "[[equity feminism]]" (she coined these terms). Gender feminism focuses on subtle issues of [[patriarchy]] which are supposed to discriminate against men by favoring masculine viewpoints and values systems. Christina Hoff Sommers says that most American women are equity feminists, simply desiring legal and civil equality with men, and that this equality is basically achieved in the United States. |
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Referring to a gender feminist meeting she had attended, Christina Hoff Sommers criticized those involved as part of a general problem she perceives in academic feminism: |
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<blockquote>The women at the Heilbrun conference are the New Feminists: articulate, prone to self-dramatization, and chronically offended. Many of the women on the "Anger" panel were tenured professors at prestigious universities. All had fine and expensive educations. Yet, listening to them one would never guess that they live in a country whose women are legally as free as the men and whoe institutions of higher learning now have more female than male students.</blockquote> |
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==Books== |
==Books== |
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Revision as of 08:14, 5 September 2005
Christina Hoff Sommers is an American author who researches culture, adolescents, and morality in American society. Her best known books are Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys.
A former university philosophy professor in Ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
Christina Hoff Sommers argues that academic "gender feminism" is opposed to mainstream "equity feminism" (she coined these terms). Gender feminism focuses on subtle issues of patriarchy which are supposed to discriminate against men by favoring masculine viewpoints and values systems. Christina Hoff Sommers says that most American women are equity feminists, simply desiring legal and civil equality with men, and that this equality is basically achieved in the United States.
Referring to a gender feminist meeting she had attended, Christina Hoff Sommers criticized those involved as part of a general problem she perceives in academic feminism:
The women at the Heilbrun conference are the New Feminists: articulate, prone to self-dramatization, and chronically offended. Many of the women on the "Anger" panel were tenured professors at prestigious universities. All had fine and expensive educations. Yet, listening to them one would never guess that they live in a country whose women are legally as free as the men and whoe institutions of higher learning now have more female than male students.
Books
- Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994) ISBN 0684801566
- The War against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (June 2001) ISBN 0684849577
- Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life
- Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics
- One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
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