Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers | |
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| Born | Christina Marie Hoff September 28, 1950 Sonoma County, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, philosopher, university professor, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute |
| Education | New York University (BA) Brandeis University (MA, PhD) |
| Notable works | Who Stole Feminism?, The War Against Boys, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life |
| Spouse | Frederic Tamler Sommers (d. 2014) |
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Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.
Sommers' positions and writing have been characterized by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "equity feminism", a classical-liberal or libertarian feminist perspective holding that the main political role of feminism is to ensure that the right against coercive interference is not infringed. Sommers has contrasted equity feminism with what she terms victim feminism and gender feminism. Several writers have described Sommers' positions as anti-feminist.