Christina Hoff Sommers

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Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950 in Petaluma , California ) is an American philosopher and author .

Life

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers was born into a Jewish family, the daughter of Kenneth Hoff and Dolores White. She earned her bachelor's degree from New York University before earning her PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University . She lectured philosophy and ethics at the University of Massachusetts Boston . From 1986 to 1997 she was an Associate Professor at Clark University . Since 1997 she has worked as a researcher at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research .

During her time at Brandeis University she met the professor and philosopher Fred Sommers , who she married in 1981. The marriage lasted until his death in 2014. The couple have two sons.

subjects

Hoff Sommer's main topics are young people, feminism and the moral values ​​in American society, which she regards in particular from a gender perspective. She has become known as a staunch opponent of academic feminism and the goals of the Second Wave of the women's movement (since the 1960s) that go beyond mere legal equality between men and women. She regards a demand for a change in traditional gender roles and the supposedly patriarchal structures of society as being overly women-centered.

To this " gender feminism" (gender feminism) , which she sees represented in mainstream feminism and especially in academic feminism, she puts "equality feminism" (or: "feminism of equal rights", English equity feminism ) (she coined these expressions ) opposite. This calls for legal and civil equality with men, which has now been implemented in the USA.

“The women at the Heilbrun Conference are the new feminists: Clearly, with a tendency to self-dramatize and chronically offended. Many of the women on this Annoyed Forum are permanent professors at a prestigious university. All of them have had good and expensive education. And yet, if you listened to them, you wouldn't get the impression that they came from you Come to a country where men and women are equal before the law and the proportion of women in universities is higher than that of men. "

Hoff Sommers emphasizes that "women can also be sexist" and that it is unknown "how much of male and female behavior is biologically or culturally determined". Sommers describes herself as a feminist, but is seen by opponents as anti-feminist because she attacks fundamental achievements of feminism.

Books

Web links

Wikiquote: Christina Hoff Sommers  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Hoff Sommers. Who Stole Feminism ?: How Women Have Betrayed Women . Simon and Schuster. (1994) ISBN 0684801566 . P. 21
  2. ^ Marc Neumann: Feminist Christina Hoff Sommers: "The USA is not a misogynist country" | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 17, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed September 18, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Flood, Michael: Backlash: Angry men's movements in: Rossi, Staceay E .: The Battle and Backlash rage on. 2004, XLibris Corp., ISBN 1-4134-5934-X , p. 273 ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xyonline.net
personal data
SURNAME Hoff Sommers, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoff, Christina Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Petaluma