Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed WomenPhilosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments with highly questionable but well-funded research, presenting inflammatory and often inaccurate information and stifling any semblance of free and open scrutiny. Trumpeted as orthodoxy, the resulting "findings" on everything from rape to domestic abuse to economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' self-esteem perpetuate a view of women as victims of the "patriarchy.". |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Women Under Siege | 19 |
Indignation Resentment and Collective Guilt | 41 |
Transforming the Academy | 50 |
New Epistemologies | 74 |
The Feminist Classroom | 87 |
A Bureaucracy of Ones Own | 118 |
The SelfEsteem Study | 137 |
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