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Christina Hoff Sommers

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in Sonoma County, California, The United States

September 28, 1950

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Christina Marie Hoff Sommers is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.
Sommers' positions and writing have been characterized by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "equity feminism", a classical-liberal or libertarian feminist perspective holding that the main political role of feminism is to ensure that the right against coercive interference is not infringed. Sommers has contrasted equity feminism with what she terms victim feminism and gender fem ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 3,362 ratings · 496 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men 3.95 avg rating — 1,673 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women 3.75 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance 3.60 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today 3.96 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: Introductory Readings in Ethics by Christina Hoff Sommers, Fred Sommers 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1985 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science on Women and Science by Christina Hoff Sommers, Joshua Aronson (Contributor), Simon Baron-Cohen (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers, Coleen Marlo (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vice and Virtue in the Business World by Christina Hoff Sommers, Fred Sommers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The hazards of repudiating tradition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers

tags: conformity, equality, individuality

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“That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women

tags: feminism, politics

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“Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they’re short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It’s defeatist and demoralising.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers

tags: anti-feminism, anti-feminist, feminism, feminist, inspiration, inspiring, life, opportunities, victimcomplex

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