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.
Because somewhere along the lines, it became accepted fact that in order to succeed, your kid just HAS to go to college. So, my best friend, for instance, who is happy to work as a woodworker is forced to go to get a business degree. Why???
I am a college student at a large public university, studying chemistry. That kind of field is a legitimate field of study, and will benifit society. Ditto for med school if I get in. But what in the heck would I do with a women's study degree?
Parents need to have tighter control on the purse strings. Because they do not, college students taking bogus majors have the free time to engage in silly activism.
Ah...the other 30% were "in the closet"!
Parents? I wonder how many of these useless degrees are being paid for by taxpayers. I think every single student in Chicano studies in my university was in some kind of scholarship or grant program. Those of us working our own way through college looked for practical useful degrees.
Screech about the evil patriarchy, subvert the Constitution of the United States, and apply for federal grants.
Like all feminists.
Scary words to the "women's studies" crowd.
Probably before Ted "Chappaquidick" Kennedy, their favorite fat feminist.
That makes me wonder how many students in these types of programs work their way through college. Most people I know with serious degrees worked their way through college to pay expenses. How many people would be willing to work their way through college for a degree in wymns studies?
It'd be interesting to see a financial sources breakdown by degree program.
Good one!
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Do you dare suggest that men and women should have sex?
How very non-feminist of you.
Diversity = lesbian feminists who hate straight white men.
No freakin' doubt. People go out and get a worthless college degree like that and then cry discrimination because nobody will hire them. Getting a degree isn't enough. If you don't have some marketable skills, you're toast.
You're not going to get any job offers from Planned Parenthood, then!
There are many aspects to life. There are our jobs, business, engineering, govt., politics, macro economics, foreign affairs. It all these cases, conservatism is correct, and liberalism is a lie that covers up the greed, power seeking corruption of its proponents.
However, there is the other side of life. There are your friends, family, parents, children, and lovers. I suspect that you treat them with compassion, understanding, and forgivness. These are the words and thoughts of liberalism and maybe even communism. I suspect when you throw a party, you make sure everyone has the same amount to eat and drink. I think the liberal arts colleges do have a place in showing a different side of life. This side may not be applicable in the grand scheme of things, but may be applicable in the small scheme of things.
I guess our new policy is to give biography info sheets catchy titles and see how many people will reply to the thread as if they actually read something in the post that relates to the made up title.
Or...... you never passed reading comprehension.
Yes ---if these women's studies majors (and chicano and black studies) would change to something like medicine or engineering or computer science, they might find their problems evaporating. But then they wouldn't need all those "minority" group type studies.
True!
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