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 * Freedom feminist - Reason.com - Book review, attributes "freedom feminist" to Sommers herself; not said in own voice
 * Freedom feminist - The Atlantic - Written by Sommers herself
 * Equity feminism - Scott London.com - Interview with Sommers; calls her self this term
 * Antifeminist - Modern Misogyny: Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era by Kristin J. Anderson. Published by Oxford University Press. "Anti-feminist boy-crisis trailblazer Christina Hoff Sommers helped solidify the industry with her 2000 The War Against Boys..."
 * Antifeminist - Chapter by Michael Kimmel (gender scholar and academic) published by Routledge. "By far the most sustained fusillade against feminism as the cause of boys' woes comes from Christina Hoff Sommers, formerly a philosophy professor and now a resident anti-feminist pundit at the American Enterprise Institute.“
 * Antifeminist - Gender and Theology, edited by Lisa Sowle Cahill, Elaine Wainwright and Diego Irarrázaval, published by SCM Press. "...hypotheses of the philosopher and anti-feminist Christine Hoff Sommers."
 * Antifeminist - The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender by Barbara Johnson. Printed by Harvard University Press. "...anti-feminist polemicists like Katie Roiphe or Christina Hoff Sommers."
 * Antifeminist - Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign edited by Myra Mendible. Chapter by Françoise Coste. Printed by BrownWalker Press. "Interestingly, like Sarah Palin, some of the most outspoken female anti-feminists since the 1990s have presented themselves as feminists: writer Christina Hoff Sommers considers herself a “legitimate feminist”, as opposed to “gender feminists”...
 * Antifeminist - Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture by Sarah Projansky. Published by New York University Press. "Another assault on feminism within postfeminist discourses comes from antifeminist (self-defined) feminists, such as ... Christina Hoff Sommers..."
 * Antifeminist - Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities by Michael Kimmell. Published by Rutgers Press. "...anti-feminist crusaders from Rush Limbaugh and Lionel Tiger to Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers..."
 * Antifeminist - Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary Key Debates by Becky Francis, Christine Skelton. Published by Routledge. "The arguments of Christina Hoff Sommers (2000) and Michael Gurian (2002) fall into that category identified earlier with 'men's rights'/recuperative masculinity theorists which has a particular anti-feminist stance."
 * Antifeminist - Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture by Katha Pollitt. Published by MODERN LIBRARY, part of Random House, Inc. "It has done more, ironically enough, for antifeminists like Christina Hoff Sommers, who, it's safe to say, would not have become a tenured professor of philosophy..."
 * "The avowed anti-feminist Christina Hoff Sommers, writing in the Washington Post, accused best-selling titles including Redbook, Mademoiselle, Good Housekeeping, and Parenting of advancing..."
 * ''"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."
 * "This perspective was propagated thoroughly during the 1990s by very positive media coverage given to Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers, two self-proclaimed feminists who have written antifeminist tracts..."
 * "Several anti-feminist pop psychology books on boys' development became best sellers. Christina Hoff Sommers' (2000) book, The War Against Boys, and now more recently, Kate O'Beirne's (2006) book, Women Who Make the World Worse..."
 * "The structure of gender equality policy, therefore, created an opportunity for anti-feminist politics. ... This is most clearly seen in the United States, where authors such as Christina Hoff Sommers (2000)..."
 * "One of these was the seemingly endless debate between Christina Hoff Sommers, an anti-feminist (though she calls herself a feminist in her own sense of the term)..." (A History of Philosophy by Anthony Serafini, International Scholars Publications, 2001)
 * "Defending professional antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers against an "activist" administration urging curriculum reform..."
 * "Another sort of antifeminist critique has emerged from a liberal individualist perspective, which critiques what it calls "gender feminism." Christina Hoff Sommers (1994)..."
 * ''"Indeed, feminist bashing has become au courant among anti-feminist collaborators like Christina Hoff Sommers,..."
 * "Women who did appear were conservative, antifeminist women such as Camille Paglia, Kate O'Beirne, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Peggy Noonan."
 * "Ironically in more recent years the antifeminist writings of Sommers and Paglia..."
 * "...a highly vocal, articulate cadre of anti-feminist academic "feminists," such as Christina Hoff-Sommers, Jean Bethke..."

Kelly (1994)
Several scholars and commentators have described errors in Sommers' book. Her claims regarding the legal permissiveness of wife beating, in particular, have been criticized as inaccurate. In arguing that British law since the 1700s and American law since before the Revolution prohibits wife beating, Sommers quotes English legal historian William Blackstone as saying that the "husband was prohibited from using any violence to his wife..." Linda Hirshman, Laura Flanders and Henry A. Kelly separately argue that, in the 1994 issue of her book, Sommers left out the other half of Blackstone's sentence that says in Latin "other than that which lawfully and reasonably belongs to the husband for the due government and correction of his wife". Kelly wrote that "by omitting the Latin of the writ, she [Sommers] omits Blackstone's qualification, namely that the law did allow reasonable violence." Kelly also notes that Sommers' explanation of the etymological origins of the phrase rule of thumb "is supported by no evidence." Flanders said that Blackstone's "complete text says the exact opposite of Sommers' partial quotation". Sommers wrote a rebuttal column a week after Hirshman's Los Angeles Times piece that Hirshman "commits an interpretive whopper since she evidently reads the omitted Latin as giving Blackstone's opinion. Not so: Blackstone mentions the 'old law' only to point out that it had been superseded in his own 'politer' day (1768): 'A wife may now have security against her husband.' That is Blackstone's view."