Christina Hoff Sommers
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Christina Hoff Sommers on Louder with Crowder in 2016
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| Born | Christina Marie Hoff September 28, 1950 Petaluma, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, university professor, scholar at The American Enterprise Institute |
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New York University Brandeis University |
| Notable works | Who Stole Feminism?, The War Against Boys,Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life |
| Spouse | Frederic Tamler Sommers (widowed) |
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Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author, former philosophy professor, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000), and her writing has been featured in a variety of different media outlets, including The New York Times, Time, and The Atlantic. 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 which suggests that the main political role of feminism is to ensure the right against coercive interference is not infringed. Sommers has contrasted equity feminism with victim feminism and gender feminism, arguing that modern feminist thought often contains an "irrational hostility to men" and possesses an "inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different".
Sommers was born in Petaluma, California, to Dolores and Kenneth Hoff. She is Jewish. She earned a BA at New York University in 1971, and a PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979. From 1978 to 1980, Sommers was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In 1980, she became an assistant professor of philosophy at Clark University, and was promoted to associate professor in 1986. Sommers remained at Clark until 1997, when she became the W.H Brady fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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