In Other News September 5, 2016

Today we look into the research of Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers and specifically her criticism of late 20th century feminism. She’s a former philosphy professor and author of several books including Who Stole Feminism?, the War Against Boys and One Nation Under Therapy. Her recent book is titled Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today. We focus in on the book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. It was published in 2000 and it tells the story of how a pathology of aggression and violence was attributed to millions of healthy male children in the United States. At the same time however, Sommers points out how girl crisis advocates were awarded millions of dollars in grants to study the plight of girls. What’s troubling, is that some the studies were exposed as being statistically false yet were adopted by the US Department of Education to set policy standards. The results of which have been implemented as behaviorial modules inside the classroom as the projected image of males are viewed as predators and females as hapless victims.

Guest – Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers, a former philosophy professor who taught ethics, is probably best known for her critique of late-twentieth-century feminism. She is also known for her extensive writings, among them Who Stole Feminism? (Touchstone Books, 1995), The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001), One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), and The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009). Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, a bestseller in college ethics, is currently in its ninth edition. Her new book Freedom Feminism—Its Surprising History and Why it Matters Today will be published in spring 2013 by AEI Press. A new and revised version of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming our Young Men was republished this year.