Who Stole Feminism?

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Summary: Feminists Hate This Book (the truth hurts)
Review: The 1-star reviews on this page are evidence that this book's charges are "right on the money". Why else would this book inspire such an organized effort by many feminist groups to debunk it and its author. She exposes the unethical and questionable tactics these groups use to force their agenda upon us, in the private and the government sectors. Many twisted feminist factoids are corrected in this book, not the other way around. HIGLY RECOMMENDED. A real eye-opener for the average thinking person, and a teeth-gnasher for the brain-washed.

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Summary: The female version of the Uncle Tom.
Review: Some women have a real problem with the concept of challenging male power, demanding gender equality, and focusing on the real discrimination that women still face in our culture. This author is one of those women. She twists statistics and bullshits her way through a book clearly designed to portray women who speak up for themselves and other women as hysterical harpies criticizing the great god man. She is a back-stabber to other women.

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Summary: Inaccurate and Misleading Propaganda
Review: Sommer's goes after feminist "advocacy statistics" but her own facts are none too pure. She insists, for instance, that wife beating was never condoned in law -- but she leaves out the part of the passage from Blackstone's commentaries that refutes her claim. She minimizes serious problems like domestic violence, female poverty, job discrimination and women's "double day" of paid work and household chores, and makes some really weird claims, like that rape has nothing to do with gender! throughout she cuts and pastes snippets from feminist writers and scholars to make them seem dishonest, bizarre and loony. But the people she attacks, like Susan Faludi, don't really say the things she says they do. She presents herself as a liberal and a feminist -- but really she's neither. That's why rush Limbaugh pushed her book on his show.

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Summary: well-researched, brave, and eye-opening
Review: A must-read for anyone who has put faith in recent feminist research. Hoff-Sommers honest style of reporting and logical approach are refreshing. Finally, reading without any of the sensationalism characteristic of contemporary feminist theory. Warning - its contents can be infuriating at times.

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Summary: An eye opener
Review: I really enjoyed this book. She debunks many myths that parts of our society have swallowed whole heartedly. She dispels many of the notions that I learned in graduate education school that seemed not to apply in reality. For example, that female students were discriminated against or were doing less well than their male counterparts. I found just the opposite to be true. I won't soon forget this book

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Summary: Destroys many feminist lies with wit and logic
Review: One can argue about Sommers is a "feminist" or not, but she shatters many of the lies spread by radical feminists. Contrary to their fables, she does deal fairly and scholarly with their arguments - she just reaches the "wrong" conclusions. This should be near the top of a very short list of books worth reading on feminism.

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Summary: Sommers' interpretation of feminism is misinformed!
Review: I am a person who is very well-read in feminist literature. And I can tell you that "Who Stole Feminism?" is the most misleading "feminist" book ever written. I put feminist in quotes because Sommers is clearly not writing a feminist work. Not only is this at issue, but her methodology and the logic of her argument is unscholarly. I believe that all theory, including feminism, has a right to be critiqued. However, that critique must be theoretically logical and methodologically sound. This book is neither! It clearly misrepresents feminism and feminist theory.

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Summary: One of the two best books on Feminism.
Review: Unless one is familiar with this book and/or Patai & Koertge's Professing Feminism one cannot be said to understand feminism. They are quantum leaps above other books on the subject. The authors are also refreshingly honest, critical and courageous in criticizing Women's Studies teaching in the University.

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Summary: Myths of Militant Feminism Destroyed
Review: A courageous examination of the militant feminist movement. Ms. Somers exposes the origins of many feminist claims (some of which have been repeated so often in the news media that they are believed by many) with a reasonable, cool-headed style

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Summary: the "no-man's land" of neo-feminism exposed and analyzed.
Review: Christina Hoff-Sommers, guides us through the "no-man's land" of neo-feminism via the trenches: anti-academic Women Studies college courses, campus front-organizations, volatile feminist rallies, and grossly agendized "research". As Ms. Hoff-Sommers exposes and analyzes the web of paranoia and anger that is foisted on our campuses and media, you will be alarmed at the influence these radical few have. It is working so well, you may discover some of YOUR perceptions have been handled. Find out the truth.