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Christina Hoff Sommers

1950 - Today

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Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christina Hoff Sommers has received more than 1,456,640 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Christina Hoff Sommers is the 6,318th most popular writer (down from 5,701st in 2019), the 11,346th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,441st in 2019) and the 834th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.93

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Who Stole Feminism?
Feminist theory, Feminism, History
1994
The War Against Boys
Teenage boys, Psychology, Feminism
2000
Vice & virtue in everyday life
Ethics, Social ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
2003
Right and Wrong
1986
The science of women in science
Sex discrimination against women, Women in science, Sex differences in education
2009
The science of women in science
Sex discrimination against women, Women in science, Sex differences in education
2009
Right and Wrong
1986
Vice & virtue in everyday life
Ethics, Social ethics
1992
The War Against Boys
Teenage boys, Psychology, Feminism
"Christina Hoff Sommers analyzes the work of the leading academic experts, Carol Gilligan and William Pollack, and finds it lacking in scientific rigor. There is no girl crisis, says Sommers. Girls are outperforming boys academically, and girls' self-esteem is no different from boys'. Boys lag behind girls in reading and writing ability, and they are less likely to go to college.". "The "girl crisis" has been seized upon by some feminists and has been suffused with sexual politics. Under the guise of helping girls, many schools have adopted policies that penalize boys, often for simply being masculine. Sommers says that boys do need help, but not the sort they've been getting. They need help catching up with girls academically. They need love, discipline, respect, and moral guidance. They desperately need understanding. They do not need to be rescued from masculinity."--BOOK JACKET.
2000
Who Stole Feminism?
Feminist theory, Feminism, History
Philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most 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, the resulting "findings" on everything from rape to domestic abuse to economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' self-esteem perpetuate a view of women as victims of the "patriarchy.". Moreover, these arguments and the supposed facts on which they are based have had enormous influence beyond the academy, where they have shaken the foundations of our educational, scientific, and legal institutions and have fostered resentment and alienation in our private lives. Despite its current dominance, Sommers maintains, such a breed of feminism is at odds with the real aspirations and values of most American women and undermines the cause of true equality. Who Stole Feminism? is a call to arms that will enrage or inspire, but cannot be ignored.
1994
Vice & virtue in everyday life
Ethics, Social ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christina Hoff Sommers ranks 6,318 out of 7,302. Before her are Dick King-Smith, Sandra Cisneros, Bill Bright, Kari Hotakainen, Roddy Doyle, and Sándor Csoóri. After her are Victor Shenderovich, Thomas Warton, Andrew Davies, Wolf Blitzer, Samar Yazbek, and Alyson Noël.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Christina Hoff Sommers ranks 614. Before her are Cristóbal Montoro, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Harald Hein, Wilner Nazaire, Jorge Del Castillo, and Phil Alden Robinson. After her are Kamala, Mario Osbén, Xu Rongmao, Gregory Harrison, Bob Kulick, and José Marín.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christina Hoff Sommers ranks 11,346 out of 20,380. Before her are Elvin Bishop (1942), David M. Walker (1944), Steve Lacy (1934), Horace Ashenfelter (1923), Cam Newton (1989), and Beau Garrett (1982). After her are Robert Benchley (1889), Oscar Micheaux (1884), Billy Gonsalves (1908), Joseph Pilato (1949), Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911), and Johnny Rebel (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Christina Hoff Sommers ranks 834. Before her are Frances Harper (1825), John Toll (1952), William H. Gass (1924), Jean Stafford (1915), Sandra Cisneros (1954), and Bill Bright (1921). After her are Alyson Noël (1965), Naomi Wolf (1962), Richard Wilbur (1921), Terry Southern (1924), Veronica Roth (1988), and Bill Prady (1960).

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