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

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[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. 

[Jim Noble]

>> on their backs, legs spread, knees up, chanting, and practicing "giving birth" to Iris.<<

ISIS, not Iris.

You really do have to keep up better with your false gods...

[RightOnline]

I see. So, Wade is one of those who has "advanced degrees" in nothing and got 'em because he's black. I'll wager he has the I.Q. of an asparagus and is incapable of carrying on an intelligent conversation.

Creatures like him make me physically ill.

[rmvh]

Re your # 1

I love this!

Its about time Yale "exploaded"....A long overdue event for a much overvalued institution.

[rmvh]

Re your # 22

I woke up a little grumpy this morning but your post made me smile!....So true!

[TN Republican]

Surely these Girl Power programs aren't teaching girls to shoot and hunt. I can't imagine them even suggesting it.

[SpookBrat]

I'm grumpy too. I should know better than to read anything pertaining to the issue of feminism 30 minutes after getting up, when 5 little girls kept me up all night.

Her books sound interesting. I think I'll hit Amazon later.

And I believe with all my heart that feminist HAVE betrayed women.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Ladies and Gentlemen, why do we spend our life savings sending our children to universities in America where our beloved children are taught hogwash by these communists?

[He Rides A White Horse]

Professor Jay Wade, of Fordham University's Department of Psychology — an expert on "listening skills" — ordered Sommers to "shut the f*ck up, bitch," to the laughter of the others in attendance.

There is nothing liberal about 'liberals'.

[Jethro Tull]

Dear Doctor Raoul:

How, in your esteemed opinion, can we help this brave woman?

[VMI70]

That pretty much explains it.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

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.

This should be interesting. Wonder if she has to answer questions with half her brain tied behind her. I am assuming that she is arguing the positive. As I recall Dr. Sowell also has a problem with womyns studies as well as "other" studies.

Expect an after action report and ping.

[DWSUWF]

"...We also had a "African" Frat that chained themselves together by the neck around campus as "slaves" and branded each other..."

With real branding irons? I can see it now...

"Take that you honkey sumbitch!"

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...

"Yow! Whut the hell you doin', you crazy bastard?"

[VinnyTex]

bumpster

[ppaul]

Total US Population (March 2000)

In a typical herd, there are more heifers than bulls.

[VaMarVet]

Did a Google search on Wade (Dr. Expert on Listening Skills) and ended up on Fordham's Univeristy Directory site. I find it interesting that the vast majority of the staff have their e-mail addresses listed, either as a fordham.edu account or their own ISP. Wade's was listed as "none". My guess is that he has a selective listening philosophy.

[Wrigley]

I hope all your engineering buddies laughed at them. I know I would have.

[Wrigley]

Oh my, what you needed was an enterprising business student.

[Clioman]

Who is Iris? And why was she being abused in this way?

[Celtic Conservative]

If it was the same frat that was at My college(and I strongly suspect it was) ours had all the pledges wearing matching uniforms with combat boots painted in the frat's colors. They would march together everywhere on campus, and until they were accepted in the frat , the pledges could only speak to their frat members , and only when spoken to. Reward for making it in was the recognition of your frat brothers, and you were branded with the frats greek letters. Although our university had strict anti hazing policies, the administration flat out refused to even question this frats practices. I'll freepmail you and see if it was the same frat, don't wanna mention it here!

[dayvoe38]

First time posting....

I really enjoyed reading "Who Stole Feminism" (I even have a copy signed by Dr Sommers herself!), but I was disappointed by "The War Against Boys." Dr Sommers exhibits a certain glee in slashing the "pseudo-science" of some feminist claims (that women's shelters report a 40% rise in crisis calls on Super Bowl weekend, for instance)but by the end of "The War Against Boys," the text has shifted into a policy paper from AEI that doesn't target "The War" anymore. It just didn't fit with what I thought the thesis of the book was.

I would bet the mortgage that Dr Sommers will more than hold her own in the debate. Not sure if the crowd would agree with me though. New Haven audiences can be tough.

For some really "it would be funny if it weren't so sad" reporting on "women's studies" check out "Professing Feminism" by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge.