AEI - Scholars - Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers

Resident Scholar

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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) and The War Against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001). Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, a bestseller in college ethics, is currently in its eighth edition. She recently edited The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009) and is preparing a second edition of The War Against Boys.

Experience

Member, Board of Advisers, Center for the American Experiment, 2001-present
Chairman, Board of Academic Advisers, Independent Women's Forum, 2000-present
Associate Professor, 1986-99; Assistant Professor, 1980-86, Clark University
Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea, 1987-88
Instructor, University of Massachusetts Boston, 1978-80

Education

Ph.D., philosophy, Brandeis University

B.A., New York University

All Items by Christina Hoff Sommers

Society and Culture / Crime

Are US Sexual Assault Stats Really as Bad as the Congo's?

Christina Hoff Sommers | How the CDC is overstating sexual violence in the US

January 30, 2012

Does the United States really have a sexual violence rate that is comparable to the Congo? In a Washington Post piece, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers explains how a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study is fundamentally flawed, and an example of careless advocacy research with bad consequences

Society and Culture / Crime

How the CDC is overstating sexual violence in the US

Christina Hoff Sommers | The Washington Post

January 30, 2012

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that possible?