Christina Hoff Sommers is a philosopher and author known for her critiques of contemporary feminism, particularly through her books *Who Stole Feminism?* and *The War Against Boys*. A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, she contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on gender politics, masculinity, and the treatment of women in Islamic societies. Her writing for the magazine spanned from 1996 to 2009 and consistently challenged prevailing feminist orthodoxies.
A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but…
The subjection of women in Muslim societies--especially in Arab nations and in Iran--is today very much in the public eye. Accounts of lashings, stonings, and honor killings are regularly in the news, and searing memoirs by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi have become major best-sellers. One might…
Manliness
EDITOR'S NOTE: Christina Hoff Sommers, author of "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming our Young Men," was stopped from completing her remarks at a government conference on drug-abuse prevention for boys, held in Baltimore on November 1. Partway through her talk, Sommers, an…
Over the years, there have been an enormous number of popular books to explain how our "male culture" oppresses American women and children. Indeed, Susan Faludi wrote one of the most popular in the early 1990s, entitled Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS TO WORK DAY, the girls-only school holiday, will be commemorated for the fourth year in a row this April 25. According to the Ms. Foundation for Women, which originated and organizes the holiday, more than 30 million adults and "millions of girls" participated in the last one.…