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| Author | Christina Hoff Sommers |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Feminism in the United States |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | June 3, 1994 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0-684-80156-8 |
Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women is a 1994 book about American feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers, a writer who was at that time a philosophy professor at Clark University. Sommers argues that there is a split between equity feminism and what she terms "gender feminism".[1] Sommers contends that equity feminists seek equal legal rights for women and men, while gender feminists seek to counteract historical inequalities based on gender. Sommers argues that gender feminists have made false claims about issues such as anorexia and domestic battery and exerted a harmful influence on American college campuses. Who Stole Feminism? received wide attention for its attack on American feminism, and it was given highly polarized reviews divided between conservative and liberal commentators.[2] Some reviewers praised the book, while others found it flawed.
- ^ Marshal, Barbara L. (2013). "Feminism and Constructionism". In Holstein, James A.; Gubrium, Jaber F. (eds.). Handbook of Construtionist Research. p. 693. ISBN 978-1-4625-1481-6.
Christina Hoff Sommers (1994) coined the term gender feminism in opposition to equity feminism.
- ^ Ehrenreich, Barbara (August 1, 1994). "A Feminist on the Outs". Time. 144: 61.