Christina Hoff Sommers

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Full Name	Christina Hoff Sommers
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Sep 28, 1950(1950-09-28)
Age	74
Birthplace	Petaluma
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

Christina Hoff Sommers Biography

Christina Hoff Sommers is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on September 28, 1950 in Petaluma, United States. Christina Hoff Sommers was born on September 28, 1950, at Sonoma County, California. She received a BA degree in philosophy from New York University in 1971 and a doctorate in the field of philosophy at Brandeis University in 1979.

Sommers was married to Fred Sommers, the Harry A. Wolfson Chair in Philosophy at Brandeis University, in 1981. He passed away in 2014. The couple has twin sons. one who is her stepson philosopher, and podcast host Tamler Sommers.

In 2000, Sommers published The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. In the book, Sommers challenged what she called the “myth of shortchanged girls” and the “new and equally corrosive fiction” that “boys as a group are disturbed.” Criticizing programs which had been set up in the 1980s to encourage girls and young women – largely in response to studies which had suggested that girls “suffered through neglect in the classroom and the indifference of male-dominated society” – Sommers argued in The War Against Boys that such programs were based on flawed research, arguing that it was just the other way around: boys were a year and a half behind girls in reading and writing and less likely to go to college.

Several authors have called Sommers’ positions antifeminist. The feminist philosopher Alison Jaggar wrote in 2006 that, in rejecting the theoretical distinction between sex as a set of physiological traits and gender as a set of social identities, “Sommers rejected one of the distinctive conceptual innovations of second wave Western feminism”, and that as the concept of gender is relied on by “virtually all” modern feminists, “the conclusion that Sommers is an anti-feminist instead of a feminist is difficult to avoid”.

In the latter half of the 1980s, Summers wrote an array of essays that slammed feminist philosophers as well as American feminists generally. In an article in 1988 Public Affairs Quarterly article titled “Should the Academy Support Academic Feminism? “, Sommers declared she believed that “the intellectual and moral credentials of academic feminism badly want scrutiny” and claimed the fact that “the tactics used by academic feminists have all been employed at one time or another to further other forms of academic imperialism.” In her articles entitled “The Feminist Revelation” and “Philosophers Against the Family,” that she published in the 1990s’ early years, she claimed that many female academics are “radical philosophers” who sought radical social and cultural changes–such as abolishing the nuclear family, and thus showed their disdain for the needs that of an “average woman.” These articles would become the basis of Who Did What to Feminism?

Christina Hoff Sommers Net Worth

Christina Hoff Sommers is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christina Hoff Sommers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28th 1950) is an American philosopher and author. Specialized in ethics, she is a scholar in residence in the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is famous for her criticism of modern feminists. Her books include Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also runs A video blog called The Factual Female.

From 1978 until 1980, Sommers taught at in the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The year 1980 saw her was an associate professor in philosophy of Clark University and was promoted to associate professor in 1986. Sommers continued to work in Clark till 1997 when she was the W.H. Brady associate with the American Enterprise Institute. In the mid-1980s, Sommers edited two philosophy textbooks that dealt with ethics. They were Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life: A Guide to readings on Ethics (1984) and Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics (1986). When he reviewed Vice and Virtue for Teaching Philosophy in 1990, Nicholas Dixon wrote that the book was “extremely well edited” and “particularly strong on the motivation for studying virtue and ethics in the first place, and on theoretical discussions of virtue and vice in general.”

Sommers is a longtime critic of women’s studies departments and of university curricula in general. In a 1995 interview with freelance journalist Scott London, Sommers said, “The perspective now, from my point of view, is that the better things get for women, the angrier the women’s studies professors seem to be, the more depressed Gloria Steinem seems to get.” According to The Nation, Sommers would tell her students that “statistically challenged” feminists in women’s studies departments engage in “bad scholarship to advance their liberal agenda” and are peddling a skewed and incendiary message: “Women are from Venus, men are from Hell.”

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