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In her book, subtitled How Women Have Betrayed Women, philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous agenda that threatens cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments with highly questionable but well-funded research, presenting inflammatory and often inaccurate information and stifling any semblance of free and open scrutiny. Trumpeted as orthodoxy, their resulting findings on everything from rape, domestic abuse, and economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' self-esteem perpetuate a view of women as victims of the "patriarchy."
Sure to provoke controversy, Who Stole Feminism? reveals how a group of academic zealots, claiming to speak for all women, has promoted a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals--and sets women against men in all spheres of life.
| Preface | 11 | |
| 1 | Women Under Siege | 19 |
| 2 | Indignation, Resentment, and Collective Guilt | 41 |
| 3 | Transforming the Academy | 50 |
| 4 | New Epistemologies | 74 |
| 5 | The Feminist Classroom | 87 |
| 6 | A Bureaucracy of One's Own | 118 |
| 7 | The Self-Esteem Study | 137 |
| 8 | The Wellesley Report: A Gender at Risk | 157 |
| 9 | Noble Lies | 188 |
| 10 | Rape Research | 209 |
| 11 | The Backlash Myth | 227 |
| 12 | The Gender Wardens | 255 |
| Notes | 276 | |
| Index | 307 |
Anonymous
Posted November 29, 2006
I disagree with the other reviewers' assertions that the book is written unintelligently and in an angry, ranting tone. Her tone can more accurately be described as critical and humorous... I liked the book-- I found it to be interesting and the author isnt afraid to mention flaws that she sees in other works. Her anecdotes about the conference are funny.
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Posted October 14, 2001
Unfortunately, Hoff Sommers doesn't seem to acknowledge an entire body of information available, but rather picks and chooses to support her argument. She raises many intersting and provocative points, all of which fall somewhat flat due to her unusual and incomplete use of sources. As a former student at the College of Wooster, I was a bit dismayed that ALL of the students she spoke with regarding the first year program were upper level students and not in the program. She criticizes numerous rape and domestic violence statistics without mentioning that many of those statistics are, in fact, corrobated and accurate in certain age groups and localities. I think she raises some interesting 'food for thought' but handled the issues poorly and incompletely.
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Posted April 22, 2001
The oversimplified and unproven rant in this book is just as angry and one sided as the oversimplified and unproven rant of the ultra-feminists she disvows. I loved the idea of the book; too bad she didn't choose to write it intelligently.
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In her book, subtitled How Women Have Betrayed Women, philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous agenda that threatens cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments with highly questionable but well-funded research, presenting inflammatory and often inaccurate information and stifling any semblance of free and open scrutiny. Trumpeted as orthodoxy, their resulting findings on everything from rape, domestic abuse, and economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' ...