Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers

Qualities Most Admired

References

She has very strong beliefs and ideas about equality between boys and girls and isn't affraid to speak out.

Christina Hoff Sommers, a former philosophy professor who taught ethics, is probably best known for her critique of late-twentieth-century feminism. She is also known for her extensive writings, among them Who Stole Feminism? (Touchstone Books, 1995), The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001), One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005), and The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009). Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, a bestseller in college ethics, is currently in its ninth edition. Her new book Freedom Feminism—Its Surprising History and Why it Matters Today will be published in spring 2013 by AEI Press. A new and revised version of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming our Young Men will be out in August 2013 (Simon and Schuster). ("Christina hoff sommers," )

She is a role model for women's rights and a new age in feminism.

Christina hoff sommers. (n.d.). Retrieved from http:// www.aei.org/scholar/

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Values education is very important to her and she speaks out for schools to incorporate it.

Hoff Sommers, C. (2013, 02 20). Do boys face more sexism than girls. Huffington Post,

Retrieved from http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and- gender/do-

boys-face-more-sexism-than-girls/

There have been several negative reviews and statements about her, yet she continues publicly with her values, ideas, and beliefs.

Ketsdever, N. (2011, 09 14). Christina hoff sommers quotes on character education and

virtue ethics. Retrieved from http://www.quora.com/Nathan-Ketsdever/Posts/

Christina-Hoff-Sommers-Quotes-on-Character-Education-and-Virtue-Ethics

Hoff Sommers, C. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/

authors/c/christina_hoff_sommers.html

Qualities Least Admired

She has an on-going feud with Carol Gilligan. It seems that they are basically working for the same goal. I almost get the impression that the two of them want to continue not liking each other instead of working together.

Honesty is a great character value of Hoff Sommers, but at times in the interviews I read, she was harshly so. Calling people out on how their views were wrong.(Hoff Sommers, 2013)

Although Hoff Sommers says we should all be treated as individuals, I feel that she wants everyone to bend to her beliefs.

Quotes

Best:

“It is perversely misleading to say that helping children to develop habits of truth telling and fair play threatens their ability to make reasoned choices. Quite the contrary: Good moral habits enhance one’s capacity for rational judgements.”(Ketsdever, 2011)

Worst:

"I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group."(Hoff Sommers)

Character Value = Integrity

Character Words:

• Scholar
• Idealist
• Feminist

Christina Hoff Sommers is a woman who believes men and women are dependent on one another and are equal but at the same time different.

Christina Hoff Sommers