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Summary: Pro-Women, Anti-Feminist
Review: Isn't it amazing that most of the negative reviews for this book have resorted to name-calling and verbal abuse?! It's no surprise, because if you have anything intelligent to say you don't need to use that sort of language. Obviously though, the women who wrote those reviews don't really have any intelligent comments to make. Ignore them and buy this book, because it does a great job of exposing the stupidity and hypocrisy of the gender feminists.
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Summary: A *very* Feminist Book
Review: I don't understand either the feminists who claim that this book is evil for bashing feminism, nor the anti-feminists who think this book is a weapon against feminists. This book IS feminist, and is *written* by a feminist.This books invites women to question, investigate, defy, think independantly and to be skeptical, logical, assertive, fair, cool-headed, scientific, and to stand boldly in the face of criticism. It invites women to make partnerships with worthy men, and to stop associating the worst of human traits with average, everyday men. I can think of nothing more Feminist.
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Summary: Finally, the truth about "Gender-Feminism".
Review: Christina Hoff Sommers carefully analyzes the positions taken by the feminists of the 1990's. She documents that modern feminism's goal is to maintain women as victims and through their victimhood maintain political power. By writing this book she demonstrates that "Gender Feminists" do not speak for all women. Ms. Sommers also discusses how our universities are used as breeding grounds for "Gender-Feminism" propagation. A very important part of the book is Ms. Sommer's analysis of how statistics are used (or rather misused) to skew the the level of victimhood experienced by women as a whole. The author also reports how skewed statistics are unquestionably picked up by the media and reported as fact. This book should be read by all women who want to throw off the chains of their victimhood that keep them from maintaining a strong and independent life, and should be read by men who want to help them. I'm glad to have read this book and proud to put my name on this review.
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Summary: TRIPE
Review: Wow, I guess this book is great for men who want to see that there are women who hate other women as much as men hate women.
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Summary: No one should go to college without reading this book
Review: I read this book because my favorite thinker, Camille Paglia, wholeheartedly recommended it. As a high senior, I was shocked to see how the manipulation of our textbooks was a feminist idea. Is it any wonder that kids are going into college who can't read? Feminist filler is to blame. As Hoff Sommers described the typical textbook lay out, scenes flashed in my memory of pages in my history books. Her information of the word "ovular" (used by an etymologically retarded feminist) was a great moment. I was horrified to see feminist tyranny even in state schools and regional private colleges. I'm urging all my friends to read this book before we go to college this fall so they'll be prepared.
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Summary: A Woman Who Dares Speak the Truth
Review: Sommers' book is an powerful and well-supported antithesis to the loud, misleading chants of gender-feminists. She knows that domestic violence and rape are horrific, and by putting such sensitive issues in perspective she lends credibility to the issues that gets skewed by hyperbole and inflated statistics. Sommers is to be commended for her bravery, superior research and excellent writing ability.
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Summary: A new breed of woman: The lying sow
Review: Cristina Sommers is a "woman" in name only, & should just go ahead & get the sex-change operation to go with her misogynistic attitude. But, as all women know, if one wants to make money in our culture, then one has to give the boys what they want. And Christina does so without one shread of remorse for her outright lies about decades of scientific research. The good news is that anyone who is even half-way well-read (and/or anyone who has experienced real life) will recognize that her remarks are outlandish.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Professor Sommers did an incredible job of tearing down the N.O.W./hate feminists' mythology of "men evil, women good." It is unfortunate that these lies continue to pervade society and classrooms. Only with the help of educated women like Prof. Sommers will the N.O.W./hate feminists' misinformation be exposed for what it is. Congratulations, Professor, on a well-written book. I recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Sophistry not just limited to Women's Studies
Review: This is the only book that documents the sophistry, called "deconstructive postmodernism" that has penetrated American Universities. The central tenet of this ideology is that "there is no such thing as truth, 'truth' is just a concept invented by the dominate power group (usually white males) for the purpose of dominating and controling others." If you read carefully, you will see several places where Sommers comments that the sophistry she is discussing is not limited to Woman's Studies programs and so-called "feminist" activities, but is spread throughout the university. As a former faculty member of State University of New York with a joint appointment at the University of Vermont - and with contacts at several other universities - I can tell you that this ideology is wide-spread. Starting in 1989, I began noticing this difference in the students and began making in-depth interviews with them over a period of 3 weeks. I was shocked to find that 85% of the students said they were convinced that there is no such thing as truth. Later, when I asked them why they believed this, they suddenly looked shocked and said they didn't really know - a sure sign of brain-washing. Both from my experience, and Sommers documents this, this brain-washing is starting in high schools where these people have influenced the writing of textbooks. This is a VERY disempowering philosophy and is causing EXTREME damage to our youth. The irony is that today, frontier science (I am a scientist) has validated the concept of law - of "truth" if you will - with far more evidence than ever existed before! And the other irony is that the American people, who dismiss philosophy as irrelevant, are asleep and unaware of this brain-washing. Time to wake up!
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Summary: Blackstone and legal wife beating
Review: I read Sommers' book years ago and liked it very much. Cathy Young's recently published "Ceasefire" is another wonderful example of this growing school of thought. The "reader from new york city" chastises Sommers for failing to properly acknowledge Blackstone's discussion of "legal wife beating". Read the relevant portions of Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England", and you'll understand why. Under English Common Law, a chivalric code, husbands were criminally liable for the actions of their wives. If a wife committed a crime, her husband was punished for it, and public whipping or worse was a common criminal sanction. Husbands were therefore permitted to physically chastise wives, to restrain them within the law, with the clear presumption that a husband's chastisement would be less severe than criminal sanction. Thus, "legal wife beating" was part of what we commonly call "chivalry". Malicious assault was simultaneously illegal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the mother of feminism, discussed this practice in the "Declaration of Sentiments" in 1848, but she did not call it "legal wife beating". She called it "administering chastisement", and faulted the practice for making women "irresponsible beings", not because it permitted chastisement by husbands but because it spared women criminal sanction.
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