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.
I have a very strong opinion on this “Girl Power” BS. Wanna hear it?
My daughter is not allowed to wear T-Shirts that insult men or make derogatory comments about the male sex. I do not want my daughter to get the idea that she can have power because of what is between her legs or what is on her chest. I want my daughter to have power over herself (with the Lord’s help of course). If my daughter should ever obtain a position of power in life, I want it to be because she is honest, intelligent, passionate AND compassionate, and brave enough to fight for what she believes in. I want her to understand that she will never obtain power or self confidence by overtly insulting her Daddy or little brother’s reproductive parts.
My daughter is a loving, smart cookie. She will achieve her goals in life because she loves and respects herself. She is learning to love men from an example set by her female role models in her family and church. I don’t want her to get anything in life, because she kicked a man in the nuts physically or verbally.
Sorry if I’m being vulgar, but this is something I feel very strongly about. I want my children to respect HUMAN BEINGS because they ARE humans. Not respect or disrespect someone because of their skin color, sex, religion, etc. I want her to have an appropriate pride in being female and the gifts that come from being feminine. That pride will not come from degrading men.
I hold the opinion that feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to the human race and most certainly our country.
I intensely despise them and ever venomous word which spews forth from their mouth.
Of course women's studies is not a legitimate academic discpline. Neither is social work, chicano studies and various other multi-cultural junk. Furthermore, some parts of the university such as education or journalism are completely rotten. Academe in general has decayed quite a bit.
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.
Did they light a fire and dance around it?
No, the 30% were looking for an easy elective course to fill their lib'ral arts graduation requirement.
This white male corporate oppressor is equal opportunity about returning fire. grin!
/john
No --the feminist way is sperm banks or turkey basters.
Ah YES! Leftest rebural at it's best, so cogent, so logical, so civil. < /sarcasm>
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