Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers (* 1950 in Petaluma, California) is an American philosopher and author.

Life

Hoff Sommers topics are teenagers, feminism and the moral values ​​in U.S. society they considered particularly under the gender aspect. As a former university lecturer in philosophy and ethics, she works as a researcher at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

Topics

It has become known as resolute opponent of academic feminism and the objectives of the Second Wave of the women's movement ( since the 1960s ), which go beyond a mere legal equality of men and women. A call for change in traditional gender roles and the patriarchal structures of society they considered woman centered exaggerated.

This "gender feminism" (Gender Feminism ), which she sees represented in the mainstream of feminism and especially in academic feminism, she represents the " equality feminism " (or " feminism of equal rights ," engl Equity Feminism. ) ( She coined these terms ) counter. This only calls for a legal and civil equality with men, which is basically now in place in the U.S.. According to Hoff Sommers most American women would be satisfied with that.

" The women on the Heilbrun conference are the new feminists: Clearly, insulted with a tendency to self-dramatization and chronic. Many of the women of this " be Angry - Forum " have a steady job as a professor at a prestigious university all had enjoyed a good and expensive training And yet, if one were listening to them you do not get the impression that they are from a. . country come in which men and women are equal before the law and the proportion of women at universities is higher than that of men. "

Summers describes herself as a feminist, but is seen by their Krikern being anti-feminist because they attacking fundamental achievements of feminism.

  • Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994 ) ISBN 0684801566
  • The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men ( June 2001) ISBN 0684849577
  • Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life
  • Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics
  • One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self- Reliance

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