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"Antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys..."

"I realize that a foolish consistency has never been the hallmark of anti-feminist crusaders from Rush Limbaugh and Lionel Tiger to Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers ...."

"This critique of gender is not presented as an opposition to feminism, but only to (so-called) “gender feminism,” by contrast to a suitable feminism of “equality,” or rather “parity,” a formulation borrowed from antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers."

"It is indeed fantastic that these antifeminist feminists, like Hoff Sommers, seem to blind to one of the most significant issues in contemporary feminist thought: insurgent multiculturalism and debates concerning difference and alliance at a variety of levels. Instead, the feminist impersonators seem to b obsessed by a narrow, Eurocentric caricatured stereotype of feminism and constantly reveal their ignorance of the current variety and diversity of contemporary feminisms."

(in discussing the Council on Civil Society) "The council is cosponsored by the Institute for American Values, headed by David Blankenhorn, a leader of the Fatherhood Movement. Antigay activists Maggie Gallagher and William Mattox are affiliate scholars of the institute, and antifeminist writer Christina Hoff Sommers, the author of The War against Boys, serves as an adviser."

"Current purveyors of backlash include the men of the Promise Keepers and men’s rights movement, who in one way or another criticize the precepts and/or progress of the women’s movement and call for a return to traditional gender relations, and antifeminist women such as Wendy Shalit, Danielle Crittenden, and Christina Hoff Sommers, who blame women and the women’s movement for a range of social ills, including but not limited to women’s supposed loss and disappointment over of the widening opportunities in their lives."