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Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline" (Yale to Explode Monday)
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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. 


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To: Dave Dilegge
I sent him the following and will post a reply - if I get one;-)

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.

141 posted on 01/26/2002 10:24:04 AM PST by americalost
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I have an engineering degree myself.... What are the philosophy and music majors going to do after graduation?

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.

142 posted on 01/26/2002 10:41:14 AM PST by codeword
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To: jude24
But what in the heck would I do with a women's study degree?

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.

143 posted on 01/26/2002 10:46:35 AM PST by codeword
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To: Demidog
My High School was pretty free of liberal propaganda when I traveled to other schools on math or science team meets I saw diffrent.
144 posted on 01/26/2002 10:50:04 AM PST by weikel
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To: staytrue
That's the problem WITH communism...a good economy appears to be based in individual self-interest...however, good human relationships are probably not...
145 posted on 01/26/2002 10:51:33 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: BrooklynGOP
Did you learn about Golda Meir, or did the class even bother to mention such evil hegemonic Zionist conservatives?
146 posted on 01/26/2002 10:53:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Doctor Raoul
"Oh boy, this is gonna be great." Flounder
147 posted on 01/26/2002 11:05:17 AM PST by onedoug
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To: jude24
Parents need to have tighter control on the purse strings. Because they do not, college students taking bogus majors

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.

148 posted on 01/26/2002 11:18:18 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: SkyPilot
We also had a "African" Frat that chained themselves together by the neck around campus as "slaves" and branded each other.

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.

149 posted on 01/26/2002 11:38:26 AM PST by rdb3
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To: Doctor Raoul
Do you have any links on the Jake Wade incident, Doc?
150 posted on 01/26/2002 11:38:55 AM PST by mrustow
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To: FITZ
No --the feminist way is sperm banks or turkey basters.

Is it proper to refer to such offspring as "little basterds?"

151 posted on 01/26/2002 11:41:26 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: FormerLib
LOL!! Good one!
152 posted on 01/26/2002 11:44:17 AM PST by FITZ
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To: Dave Dilegge
actually, Wade did have his email address listed until a few days after the Kurtz story broke on National Review and my guess is he got so slammed with emails about his behavior he took his email off of the web. Fordham officials responded to several FR people and said they would investigate it and discipline him at the time but I never heard what happened after that. If he is still on the web page, he is still probably teaching his "advanced degree in nothing" material.
153 posted on 01/26/2002 11:54:35 AM PST by erc5892
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To: wwjdn
You ever seen me at a FReep? I'd just shoot the sh*t right back at those feministas!
154 posted on 01/26/2002 11:59:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Right Wing Professor
A women's studies course here at the University of Nebraska spent the first class of the semester chanting the word 'lesbian' over and over again, allegedly to 'get comfortable with using the word'.

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.

155 posted on 01/26/2002 12:03:57 PM PST by hillary's_fat_a**
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To: Doctor Raoul
"Will the Clinton supporting feminists take this kneeling down?"

The Clintons and the Clintonistas take everything else kneelng down!

156 posted on 01/26/2002 12:09:24 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: kcvl
Jay Wade, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Maryland.

Oh Maryland, my Maryland.

You go a lot of 'splainin' to do.

157 posted on 01/26/2002 12:14:33 PM PST by Marylander
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To: dayvoe38
New Haven audiences can be tough.

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

158 posted on 01/26/2002 12:15:08 PM PST by nothingnew
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To: Marylander
You're right about that: gun confiscation, Kensington Santa Ban, Montgomery Kounty anti-smoking bill, anti-discrimination law for homosexual, MD gun license bill. However, I ain't splainin' nutttin', because I already conservative, yo, yo!
159 posted on 01/26/2002 1:12:59 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Jim Noble
ISIS or IRIS what's the difference?They looked the same when i was drunk so i got them both pregnant with a "MANCHILD"!
160 posted on 01/26/2002 1:19:12 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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