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.
You want fries with that?
This sounds as exciting as when, in 1989, a doctor from Florida, attending his class reunion at Yale, burned "Nelson Mandela City."
Actually, it was "Winnie Mandela City," which is even more hilarious, what with her post-apartheid murder conviction and all that.
I haven't seen either one in about 4 years.
The daughter is majoring in "Women's Studies" at a state university in Maine, YIKES, what a change in this girl.
She was a model while in HS, gorgeous bright etc.
She now looks like a lesbian, butch 1 inch hair and mannish clothes etc. I was shocked and wouldn't have known this was the same girl if she hadn't been with her mom......sad.
MKM
As far as I could ever tell, the only reason to go to a women's studies class was to look. You sure-as-shootin' weren't going to learn anything.
Shalom.
I agree. The ironic thing about feminists is that many of them seem to be looking for "real men". They challenge men with their radical feminist ideology and then watch how men respond to the challenge. It's a test of each man's strength to see if he will allow women to stomp on his rights and diminish his importance in the world. Those who allow themselves to be diminished fail the test, while those who tell the feminists to take a hike....those men pass the test and are in turn respected more by the feminists. I think too the sad truth is that many feminists have been mistreated by a man at some point in their lives and radical feminism is a way to express their anger over this mistreatment.
But anyway back to Bush & Rumsfeld. They deal with the world extremely well by being strong and uncompromising while remaining compassionate and not abusing their power. (Abuse of power is the sign of men who mistreat women, such as mob-boss Clinton). It looks to me that the economy will be rocking by 2004, Saddam will be gone by then, and President Bush should easily win re-election with about a 58% majority in the popular vote (carrying 42 states). Let's hope it all works out that way.
Best Regards,
defenderSD
Newport Beach, CA
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