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	Christina Hoff Sommers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author who researches culture, adolescents, and morality in American society.
		Christina Hoff Sommers argues that "gender feminism" is opposed to "equity feminism" (she coined these terms).
		Sommers recognizes, however, that the view she considers mainstream is not the loudest voice in feminism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers (650 words)

	BookPage Interview July 2000: Christina Hoff Sommers
		Sommers, who took academic feminists to task in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?, says these groups have promoted misleading and incorrect data, an assertion she probes in her book.
		Sommers explains that she would also like to see a "major correction in the schools of education in their offerings on gender education." She recommends a new study be required reading: "Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women" by the U.S. Department of Education.
		Sommers has had to go to bat for her own son, who once got in "big" trouble during a school field trip for jumping up and swatting a restaurant awning that the class passed on the street.
	www.bookpage.com /0007bp/christina_hoff_sommers.html (990 words)

	Review of Christina Hoff Sommers' "Where the Boys Are"
		Sommers argues that the truth is the reverse: in fact it is boys who are suffering from neglect by the schools and a crisis in educational achievement.
		Sommers claims that the AAUW failed to publicize a study it commissioned from Valerie Lee (Lee, Chen, and Smerdon 1996), because it supposedly contradicted their earlier, highly publicized study that found the schools shortchange girls (117).
		Sommers cannot refute the claim that schools shortchange girls in respects A, B, and C by pointing out that they do not shortchange girls in respects X, Y, and Z. Falsely claiming that feminist research ignores respects in which boys are disadvantaged.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~eandersn/sommers2.html (2678 words)

	Review of Who Stole Feminism, by Christina Hoff Sommers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sommers starts with the domestic violence statistics, citing various claims, such as senator Biden’s that “In the past year 3 million women have been battered.” These are countered by the studies of respected researchers Richard Gelles and Murray Straus, whose previous studies were commonly cited by many feminists.
		Sommers’ work to thoroughly discredit her as a researcher, unless they can successfully refute her debunking of the most cherished feminist myths, then “shock and awe” feminism is still in serious trouble.
		Sommers’ critique wasn’t just that feminist academics made mistakes in their statistics, but that these statistics were trusted unquestioningly and routinely cited by the mainstream media without checking the facts.
	www.missouri.edu /~ah0e7/giz/issue2/wsfeminism.html (3290 words)

	The "Stolen Feminism" Hoax: Anti-Feminist Attack Based on Error-Filled Anecdotes
		Sommers also retells the story of the English professor at Pennsylvania State University who "took offense" at Goya's The Naked Maja, a reproduction of which was hanging in her classroom.
		Sommers writes that there wasn't "any basis for saying that there was a significant rise in domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday." Her book suggests that she never read FAIR's Jan. 18, 1993 news release, which spelled out the grounds for addressing domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday.
		Sommers claims to be a skeptic who believes in going to the original source, but neither she nor Ringle ever called the national FAIR office in New York to check their stories or get copies of the materials that FAIR distributed.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1246 (1396 words)

	Christina Hoff Sommers
		Sommers focuses less on boys than on the feminists and cultural liberals against whom she has a long-standing animus.
		And it is Sommers and her conservative allies, not "gender feminists," who seek to suppress dissenters.
		It's hard to tell whether Christina Hoff Sommers, stumping for the Young America's Foundation and its kid sister, the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, is the darling of the far right or whether she is doing penance for some great sin committed against her conservative brethren...
	www.mediatransparency.org /personprofile.php?personID=69 (906 words)

	Diana Mertz Hsieh: Christina Hoff Sommers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the heart of Sommers' critique of "gender feminism" lies a deep commitment to reason, scientific methodology, and basic common sense, which certainly one of the best reasons to read her work.
		As Sommers' points out, the amazing thing is not that such a misunderstanding could happen, but that it was allowed to spread for so long (since 1989 to 1993) and so widely.
		Christina Hoff Sommers Wall Street Journal July 7, 1995 -=- Diana Mertz Brickell -=- Washington University -=- St-Louis, MO -=- Objectivism on the WWW - !http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~diana/objectivism "Your coolness was verified by all known scientific procedures." -- JDW -=- diana@artsci.wustl.edu -=-=- http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~diana -=-
	www.dianahsieh.com /internet/1996.04.02.html (1963 words)

	The Future of Feminism: An Interview with Christina Hoff Sommers
		Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former professor of philosophy at Clark University in Massachusetts.
		Christina Hoff Sommers: In the late 1980s, I began to have disagreements with some of my colleagues in philosophy.
		Sommers: I think the great achievement of feminism was to assert the truth that women are individuals.
	www.scottlondon.com /interviews/sommers.html (3015 words)

	Christina Hoff Sommers: The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sommers relates in her writing, and consequently my husband and I will spare no sacrifice to see to it that they receive a truly orthodox education.
		Sommers is only one of our reasons for our decision to homeschool or seek orthodox, hopefully single-sex Catholic schools for our children.
		Sommers criticizes AAUW because it published a study that (1) grossly exaggerated girls' problems, (2) ignored the advances that had already made, (2) ignored the problems boys, especially boys of colour, face, and (4) explicitly warned AGAINST government-funded programs that were directed to increase boys' reading and writting skills.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0684849577 (2005 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Battle of the celebrity gender theorists
		Christina Hoff Sommers skewers Carol Gilligan, Jane Fonda and their "girl crisis" rhetoric.
		Sommers, also the author of "The War Against Boys," strongly disagrees that girls are treated as the "second sex" in schools.
		In fact, says Sommers, after 10 years of feminist-influenced curriculum aimed at righting the perceived educational biases against girls, it is boys who have become the second sex in America's schools.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/2001/03/09/sommers/index.html (858 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...Sommers, in fact, takes a scalpel to several major and influential studies produced by researchers who, like Hoeffler, clearly want nothing to do with "white male norms"-if by such norms we are to understand objectivity, or the fair reporting of findings...
		...A philosophy professor at Clark University in Massachusetts, Sommers explores both the capture of academia by "politically-correct" feminists-whose vagaries she unabashedly delights in skeweringand the trickle-down of "waragainst-women" myths from the campus to the mainstream media...
		...In it, Christina Hoff Sommers deftly debunks the horror stories as canards, meant to convince everyone that "women remain besieged and subject to a relentless and vicious male backlash...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V98I3P58-1.htm (1774 words)

	MenWeb - Men's Issues: Think Tank: Paglia & Sommers
		SOMMERS: I interviewed a young women at the University of Pennsylvania who came in in a short skirt and she was in the Women's Center, and I think she thought I was one of the sisterhood.
		SOMMERS: It's now 71 cents, and that is not correct because you have to control for age, length of time in the work place.
		SOMMERS: And yet there are going to be -- there's going to be $5 million now, plus a lot more from the education bill, for workshops on gender-bias in the classroom, which is a non-problem compared to far more serious problems.
	www.menweb.org /paglsomm.htm (4460 words)

	AIF PRESS RELEASE
		Sommers will address "Gender Studies: Legitimate Academic Discipline or Political Agenda?" The event is free and open to the public.
		Sommers is frequently asked to comment on gender bias in the schools, as well as on feminism, and she has appeared on Nightline, ABC Evening News, CBS Evening News, Crossfire, Eye To Eye, 20/20, Inside Politics, Equal Time, Politically Incorrect and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
		Sommers earned a B.A. from New York University, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979.
	www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/aif/pressrelease1.html (382 words)

	Amazon.com: The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men: Books: Christina Hoff Sommers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sommers points out the driving force of the gender equity movement is a sort of vengeance, to give back to girls what was wrongfully taken from them and handed over to boys.
		Christina Hoff Sommers does a commendable job in breaking down the fallacies of popular gender studies perception, and she in turn shows how our boys are really the deprived class as we move from a patriarchal society toward a feminization of institutions and customs.
		Where Sommers goes awry is when she gives a run-through of various public school programs that have admirably shied away from some therapeutic practices, and have instead taught morals, character, and discipline in its place.
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/0684849577 (3792 words)

	Stanley Kurtz on Christina Hoff Sommers & Girl Power on National Review Online
		Sommers was delivering an invited speech at a conference on "Boy Talk" (a program sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention (CSAP) of the Department of Health and Human Services) when CSAP official Linda Bass summarily interrupted, and commanded Sommers to end her talk.
		According to Wade, Sommers roused the anger of the people in the crowd — especially minorities, many of whom, according to Wade, had no advanced degrees — by insisting that scientific research was needed to validate the effectiveness of government programs.
		Christina Hoff Sommers understood this, and that is why she was silenced, insulted, and ejected from a conference before she could speak the truth.
	www.nationalreview.com /contributors/kurtz120501.shtml (1296 words)

	AAUW Lashes Out at Christina Hoff-Sommers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Indeed, the charges Christina Hoff-Sommers brought against the AAUW in her 1994 book would seem to command a more detailed and lengthy response than the fact sheet offers; 15 of the 18 charges are dismissed in short, one- or two-paragraph answers.
		The AAUW responded to Sommers' references to the bill with a detailed five-paragraph explanation of the breakdown between the House and Senate versions, an outline of monies earmarked for different sections of the bill, and the actual provisions in what resulted as the reauthorized 1994 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
		On the contrary, Sommers' attempt to uncover the truth is both appreciated and acknowledged as a fundamental service to male and female children, who are both misrepresented and underestimated by the advocacy research of the AAUW.
	www.rightgrrl.com.cob-web.org:8888 /steph/aauw.html (1451 words)

	Defense of Christina Hoff Sommers
		It is a good and healthy thing that the controversy swirling around Christina Hoff Sommers, despite its sometimes personal and vituperative aspects, has been allowed to play out in the letters to the Proceedings of the APA.
		The philosophical debate is about the legitimacy of Sommers's term "gender feminism"; and the professional debate is about her charge that what has become an academic establishment of feminism in fact subscribes to the ideological tenets of this "gender" feminism and employs political means to enforce it.
		The "diversity" of the feminism lumped by Sommers into "gender" feminism is insisted upon by her critics.
	www.friesian.com /apa-pro.htm (766 words)

	The Weird, Wild World of Anti-feminism: Geekery Today 2002-02-06 :: Rad Geek People's Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this article, at least, the author allows voices other than Christina Hoff Sommers to speak (not the case in Befner’s regrettable Battle of the Celebrity Gender Theorists, an article allegedly about Jane Fonda and Carol Gilligan, which nevertheless consisted entirely of a sympathetic interview with Christina Hoff Sommers).
		However, it just so happens that Hoff Sommers and those who agree with her are given the last word in every case; allowed to skewer interpretations of data by Gilligan and other feminists, but given a free pass on truly bizarre statements.
		Hoff Sommers mistakenly assumes here that the reason for not including Tom Clancy pulp in the English class is because teachers are craven
	radgeek.com /gt/2002/02/06/the_weird (2295 words)

	TIME.com: A Feminist on the Outs -- Aug. 1, 1994 -- Page 1
		Soon the Times was deluged with letters from furious Sommers supporters, who said the paper should have realized that it had assigned the review to someone who was attacked (although not named) in the book.
		In her July 3 reply, Auerbach acknowledged that she had attended one of the academic summits that Sommers derides but added that the book made no mention of the paper she gave there and "I therefore do not consider my presence to be a conflict of interest in reviewing the book."
		Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,981169,00.html (705 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sommers is perhaps best known to the general public for two groundbreaking books.
		In 2001, Sommers published The War Against Boys, which argued that boys, not girls, are being shortchanged by the educational system.
		Sommers, who has been quoted as describing herself as "a libertarian and feminist," is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
	www.self-gov.org /celebrities/christina-hoff-sommers.html (467 words)

	Independent Women's Forum: Staff List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and chairman of IWF's National Advisory Board.
		Sommers is editor of a popular textbook in moral philosophy entitled Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, which is used in college ethics courses around the country.
		Sommers has appeared on Nightline, ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, Crossfire, Eye To Eye, 20/20, Inside Politics, Equal Time, Politically Incorrect, and the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss such issues as the future of feminism and gender bias in the schools.
	www.iwf.org /about_IWF/sommers.asp (319 words)

	The Lundy Chair Philosophy of Business
		Most who attended the lecture were unaware of the magnitude of the problem, but were awakened by the illustrations that Sommers clearly explained as she went into the details.
		Sommers argued that this attack is uncalled for and wrong.
		Sommers earned her B.A. from New York University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971, and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979.
	www.campbell.edu /business/lundy/vol_23_2/sommers.html (403 words)

	"The War Against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers @ Blogcritics.org
		Disclaimer: Christina Hoff Sommers is on the staff at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
		Sommers lays out the case against unequal treatment with such dispassionate and methodical procedure, you might mistake her approach for a scientist proving the speed of light.
		Sommers' work gave me the support I needed to ask if he is the problem, and whether the expectations of behavior are appropriate for a young student.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/08/12/221558.php (1631 words)

	Writers' Representatives, LLC: The War Against Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sommers comments acidly here and there, but her tone is generally measured, and she bolsters her points with an array of studies, statistics, and charts....'Talking about moral failure is less stylish than talking about the inimical workings of patriarchy,' she writes.
		There is a crying in the wilderness quality to her book, a sense that certain simple truths have been lost sight of in the smoky quarrelsomeness of American life.
		Sommers or one may disagree, but it is hard not to credit her with a moral urgency that comes from both the head and from the heart." — Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
	www.writersreps.com /book.cfm?BookID=327 (845 words)

	Christina Hoff Sommers -- Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age?
		Christina Hoff Sommers -- Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age?
		Philosopher Christina Sommers charges that today's young people are suffering from "cognitive moral confusion." They not only have trouble distinguishing right from wrong - they question whether such standards even exist.
		Christina Hoff Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She is also a professor of philosophy at Clark University, where she has served on the faculty since 1980.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles/SommersMoralStoneAge.htm (2947 words)

	Men: It’s in Their Nature - Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D. - MensNewsDaily.com™
		by Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D. This past spring, my son spent a month in Israel with his senior class.
		And one reason is that Americans are increasingly aware that traditional male traits such as aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking and stoicism—constrained by virtues of valor, honor and self-sacrifice—are essential to the well-being and safety of our society.
		Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
	mensnewsdaily.com /archive/s/s-misc/sommers091803.htm (1312 words)

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