Christina Hoff SommersResident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women have Betrayed Women
Posted on 01/26/2002 12:06:52 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women have Betrayed Women
Monday, January 28, 7:30 PM
"Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline"
Christina Hoff Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Chairman of the Independent Women's Forum National Advisory Board.
She is author of the recently released book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of a popular textbook in moral philosophy entitled Vice and Virtue In Everyday Life that is used in college ethics courses around the country. Sommers became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
She is best known for her writings on two subjects: moral education in the schools, and feminism and American culture. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the Chicago Tribune, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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. Profiles of her have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the London Times.
Sommers earned her B.A. at New York University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Brandeis University in 1979. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1980.
Right On. Personally I would have spelled the word out, though. I submit for discussion that anyone who writes the esteemed Dr. Wade should refrain from putting *** in the f-word he is reported to have hurled (phrased in quotes of course). Some people can't say or write that word on principle, but the rest should fill his inbox with the expletive in all its glory. After all, he's the one that said it. Why should we 'nice it up' for him. It's a vile and disgusting thing to say, and only a vile, disgusting man would say it to a woman.
Engineering is one of the few majors that qualifies you for a job right after graduation. Preparation for a specific job is not the main purpose of a college education.
Preparation for a specific job is not the main purpose of a college education. That's what technical schools, business schools, and on-the-job training is for.
The reason why Women's Studies is not a legitimate academic discipline is that it is not a subject in the same sense as history or philosophy or chemistry or biology. Everything in Women's Studies could be taught in sociology, psychology, history, political science or antrhopology classes--except for the male bashing, which is not an academic subject, either.
This too can be abused with parents who have too narrow a view of what their child ought to study, especiaaly those types who desire to "relive" their own lives through the children. To some, subjects history or mathematics (a field I was interested in) are "bogus" majors.
What do you mean by "African frat?" I belong to a fraternity, and we use Greek letters.
So, are you referring to a black Greek-lettered fratnerity, or a fraternity with an African name? Seriously. I wouldn't doubt it if there were a frat going by an African name.
I have a brand, too, by the way.
Is it proper to refer to such offspring as "little basterds?"
Well, I suppose it's easier than repeating 'carpet muncher' or 'bush biter' or 'labia licker'...ROFLOL! Frankly, I thought the academic agenda at mid-western schools was more 'relevant' than what one might find at liberal schools on either coast.
The Clintons and the Clintonistas take everything else kneelng down!
Oh Maryland, my Maryland.
You go a lot of 'splainin' to do.
No kidding!...I was at the Doors concert at Goffe St. Arena when the cops pulled him off the stage...("...blood in the streets in the town of New Haven...")...ya gotta be around 50 years old to understand what I'm saying...got maced by the NHPD at that one.
Those were the days...
FMCDH
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