Biography

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she studies the politics of gender and feminism, as well as free expression, due process, and the preservation of liberty in the academy. Before joining AEI, Dr. Sommers was a philosophy professor at Clark University.

She is best known for her defense of classical liberal feminism and her critique of gender feminism. Her books include "Freedom Feminism-Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today" (AEI, 2013); "One Nation Under Therapy" (St. Martin's Press, 2005), coauthored with Sally Satel; "The War Against Boys" (Simon & Schuster, 2001 and 2013), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2001; and "Who Stole Feminism?" (Simon & Schuster, 1995). Her textbook, "Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life," currently in its ninth edition, is a bestseller in college ethics.

Her writings have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In addition to frequent radio and television appearances, Dr. Sommers is the host of the popular video blog, The Factual Feminist.

Dr. Sommers has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Brandeis University and a B.A. from New York University.
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[re: the most noted women's groups centered Washington] They have not taken well to the idea that boys are in trouble. I don't think these groups are consciously warring against boys. But I do think they see the world as a zero- sum game: a competition between Venus and Mars. Their job is to defend Venus. In just wish they would see that times have changed. They're knocking down doors that are already open.

If you look at the trends in school, many teachers and parents don't understand rough-and-tumble play. They confuse it with aggression and violence. In the U.S., it seems that hardly a week goes by without a little boy being suspended for playing cops and robbers.. Rough- and-tumble play helps boys forge critical social skills and friendships. Play is the basis of learning.

Critics of my work say: well, even if boys are failing at school, eventually they will win in life. But the fact is that men tend to show up at the extremes of success and failure. And failure is far more common. There is a small coterie of men who prevail in the high echelons of industry, politics and academia. But millions of young men are poorly educated and disengaged from the workforce. In any case, I argue that ignoring the educational needs of men is not the way to help women.