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In a provocative and controversial study, the author of Who Stole Feminism refutes the claims of Reviving Ophelia to argue that boys have become the primary victims of American society, showing how boys' weaknesses are aggravated by anti-boy prejudices and offering constructive suggestions on how to help young males.

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The author of the provocative bestseller Who Stole Feminism? returns with an equally eye-opening follow-up. "It's a bad time to be a boy in America," writes Christina Hoff Sommers. Boys are less likely than girls to go to college or do their homework. They're more likely to cheat on tests, wind up in detention, or drop out of school. Yet it's "the myth of the fragile girl," according to Sommers, that has received the lion's share of attention recently, in hot-selling books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. When boys are discussed at all, it's in the context of how to modify their antisocial behavior--i.e., how to make them more like girls. This book tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. It is a story of how we are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' aggressive tendencies must be checked and channeled in constructive ways. Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. They do not need to be pathologized. Sommers eviscerates feminist scholarship by Harvard's Carol Gilligan, the American Association of University Women, and others. Hers is feisty, muscular prose and fans of Who Stole Feminism? will delight in it. "There have always been societies that favored boys over girls," she writes. "Ours may be the first to deliberately throw the gender switch. If we continue on our present course, boys will, indeed, be tomorrow's second sex." That rhetoric may err on the side of alarmism, but Sommers' ideas are full of common sense. She essentially urges parents and educators to let boys be boys, even though their "very masculinity turns out to be politically incorrect." The War on Boys is sure to set off a fiery controversy, just as Sommers' previous book did--but it should also find a big audience of readers who become fans. --John J. Miller

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Christina Hoff Sommers is the W. H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Brandeis University and was formerly a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Sommers has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and many others. She is the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. She is married with two sons and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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A Call for Moral Leadership Amongst Polemicism

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This book summarizes the feminist research about repression of girls and the Gilligan and Pollack research about the problems boys are having. Ms. Sommers goes on to cite exhaustive research that draws opposite conclusions about what problems exist for boys and girls and what the causes and solutions are. Looking at work done with boys in England and in the United States, she concludes that major issues about male misbehavior, when it occurs, relate to the lack of moral leadership at home and at school in directing boys to employ proper behavior.

All discussions about large groups are inherently flawed because the circumstances of each individual in that group will be vastly different from the average of the group. The War Against Boys continues the debate about whether or not young women are being treated poorly by society, especially in school, by pointing out that boys are doing more poorly than girls. That observation, while true, doesn't answer the problem of what to do about the girl or boy who is having a problem with another child (whether from sexual harrassment, being overbearing or from some other source). Clearly, something is wrong with the circumstances of our young people today because psychiatrists report rapid growth in depression among them. Neither side of the debate regarding repressed females addresses this more serious question.

I dislike a tone of polemicism, and Ms. Sommers gave me more of it than I like. On the other hand, if you enjoy reading about the weaknesses of much feminist scholarship, this is your book. I was glad that I read this material, because I was familiar with the Gilligan work about girls from reading about it in The New York Times. Determined to be a good father, I constantly ask my daughter about whether the boys in school are behaving appropriately towards her. I really felt foolish in being so concerned about this issue after reading in this book what the follow-up studies have shown -- that girls generally are treated better and are happier in school than boys are, as perceived by teachers, the boys and the girls.

Ms. Sommers is offended by many government-supported programs that encourage teaching boys to be more like girls. Having seen my two sons benefit in many ways from such programs, I did not share her reactions. Reasonable people can and will differ on this point.

The main weakness of the book is that is does not address the deep resonance that occurs among some women when someone talks about girls being repressed by male behavior in school. Clearly, that resonance suggests to me that many women have experienced that repression. Before this debate is going to be concluded, someone is going to have to address the sources of that resonance. If boys in school are not repressive now, were they many years ago?

I was still left wondering why feminist books that talk about mistreatment of girls by boys in school are so popular. That thought reminded on a seminar I sat in on concerning English literature at a college three years ago. The class had mostly women in it, yet one young man dominated the conversation for almost an hour. But this young man had little of value to say. The female professor could not quite get him to slide into a lesser role, and a lot of time was wasted. After class was over I asked the woman at my side if this was typical. She rolled her eyes, and said that every session was like this. We continued talking, and she told me some of her thoughts about the subject of that hour's discussion. Clearly, her ideas were superior to those offered by anyone else in the class. Yet she had said nothing. I don't know why, but I was struck that clearly we would all benefit from a society where all spoke openly so we would have a chance to hear what was on each person's mind.

The work in this book on the need for moral leadership is superb, and is worth reading the book for.

Love, support and guide children of all ages, regardless of their sex!

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Steve Moyer

Excellent research but the "war" is unnecesary!

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 20. Juni 2000

Ms. Sommers is a great researcher but falls a little short on the "great thinker" scale. I wanted more from this book. I wanted her to synergize her views with those of her opponents. She was too eager to have a "war" and "win it." She tried too hard to dominate her opponents and "win" the argument. I'm not interested in domination or winning; that's the problem we need to overcome.
The feminists and progressives who want to "re-define manhood" seem lacking in honorable methodology, but they *DO* have some good points. What does it mean to be a man in today's world? We buy our meat at the supermarket and have wars at the push of a button. Who needs valorous fighters and daring hunters any more? What are men supposed to do? She doesn't offer much guidance in this regard except a return to the tried-and-true harsh discipline of yesteryear. Yawn...
I recommend the book nonetheless and found it to be an enlightening read. She should give up the "war," as it isn't helpful in defining and re-defining what it means to be a boy, girl, man or woman in our age. Perhaps she thought that one more metaphorical "war" is what we need. She should get a clue from the Bible and "love her enemies." Instead, she falls into the same trap her opponents seem to enjoy --- victimology. She is victimizing boys as much as the people she opposes!
Who is to say that boys have not already adapted to this feminist "programming" and come up with their own solution? I think if you look hard enough you will find boys and men who already know how to deal with self-rightous feminist activists .... ignore them. We know better.
Eventually, when enough men say "NO" to the women who attempt to coerce conformity with feminist ethics, these women will begin to wonder if there isn't some better way to create a cooperative society. Of course there is; it's called "mutuality."
"Just say no" when the feminists come calling. Encourage them to think about what is "right and just" for ALL PEOPLE, not just for one sex. Back to basic virtues, please.
Machiavelli said "Divide and Conquer." That's a great tactic for warfare, but we aren't at war here. Sommers is as divisive as her opponents and should change her tactics to those of INCLUSION and MUTUALITY rather than DIVISION and DOMINANCE.
She makes lots of good points about how England is changing its educational system to improve its fitness for boys. I wanted to "click" on a petition to inform my legislators that I concur with what England is doing. Same-sex schools for boys and girls, especially at young ages, make a lot of sense to me. Figure out what works to enhance academic performance and "just do it!" That's pretty simple stuff.
Instead I'm left with a trite truism of "Boys will be boys." We are constantly redefining what gender identity and gender roles should be and in a world of 6 billion people we might want to consider that men have a higher calling than fulfilling their social expectations for heterosexual intercourse. How about some spiritual insights here? Most of the great spiritual leaders of the world have been men, but Ms. Sommers is very careful to avoid this fact.
Perhaps if men learned how to "nurture" better they would be less interested in proving their manhood and more interested in mentoring the millions of fatherless boys. That's the real crime; men walking away (or being locked away) from their children. Again, she touches on it but doesn't give us that "click" to tell our legislators what needs to be done.

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John of Lima, OH

The Rise of Rousseau: Permissiveness in American Education

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 28. Juli 2000

While the _War Against Boys_ is mostly about the book's subtitle, How Misguided Feminism is Harming Young Men, the book eventually evolves into a discussion of permissive education and the role of Rousseauian ethics in current-day education. Hoff Sommers discusses how Aristotle has been supplanted by a more progressive view of the role of educators and education in the life of our children (teachers as "guide on the side," etc.).
Hoff Sommers believes that while progressive values in education harms both boys and girls, it is boys who most need a moral education along with the three R's. I like Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Ehrenreich, English, and some of the other 1970s and 1980s feminist writers, but that doesn't preclude a look at the other side of gender politics, which Hoff Sommers ably presents.
She does a nice job of deconstructing pillars of modern-day feminist research, such as Carol Gilligan. It's not hot air here. The book is for reflective educators who appreciate a good dichotomy on values in education. Not very "correct" by focusing on boys; nevertheless, a good read on the place of values and gender politics in education.

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Wanda B. Red

Moral Mandatory

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Christina Hoff Sommers deserves a lot of credit for calling attention to an educational crisis afflicting American boys before it was common to do so. As the years have passed since this 2000 study, declining male matriculation and graduation rates have made it clear that, just as girls require special focus on their educational needs, so also do boys. At her best, Sommers acknowledges that educational success does not need to be a zero sum game: Both boys and girls should be supported and enabled to succeed in school; programs that acknowledge their individual learning styles and needs (e.g., single-sex education) can be part of a solution that benefits both sexes.

Instead, as Sommers points out, some (though perhaps not as many as she indicates) educational theorists arrogantly impose their own notions of ideal male behavior, an ideal that essentially feminizes young men, in the classroom, making guinea pigs of little boys by discouraging their natural exuberance, competitiveness, and physicality. I'm a mother of two sons who would have done better with more recess, so I could easily see the commonsense basis of her argument, though I'm sure one doesn't have to be the mother of boys to stand with her on this point. Since the publication of this book, it has become much more common to encounter criticism of the repression and even medication of normal boy behavior. Not only grade schools and high schools, but colleges and universities are increasingly concerned about underachieving young men. Sommers has played an important role in facilitating the conversation that has allowed us as a society to acknowledge and address this serious problem.

But even as Sommers attacks the feminist "save the males" movement, she substitutes one of her own, ultimately claiming with a certain arrogance herself that she is the one who truly understands not only the complexity of male identity but also the range of educational practices that can help to bring a young boy to full maturity as a man. Would that she would apply her "plea for reticence" (152) to herself. Instead, she argues nostalgically for a very traditional educational framework that not only imposes specified academic standards on our schools, but that also insists upon behavioral conformity. To my eye, the "eleven be's" that she promotes in chapter 8 ("The Moral Life of Boys") are no less idiosyncratic and academically limiting than the behavioral restrictions on boys with which she disagrees earlier.

This inconsistency becomes an increasing problem. "The War Against Boys" begins by attacking those who would cast all American boys under the shadow of the Columbine killers. As Sommers states straightforwardly, "This book tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children." By the end of the book, however, Sommers herself is manipulating the Columbine tragedy into serving as an object lesson in the improper "socialization" of the two male killers. Current educational practice, in this argument, underestimates the "barbarism" of young males, which according to Sommers must be tamed by a "directive moral education." The main difference here between Sommers and her opponents is that SHE gets to specify what that education will comprise.

Some readers will appreciate the pithy, hard-driving quality of the argument and the prose in this book. But much of that energy is purchased at the cost of caricaturing Sommers's opposition. Carol Gilligan, for example, really plays an outsize role here. For a moment in time, to be sure, she was an important feminist figure, but she never stood for all of feminism, and she was never as key a player in feminist pedagogy as Sommers makes her out to be. No book that addresses a complicated issue like this one should devote, as Sommers does, two full chapters to one straw (wo)man.

Still, there is no gainsaying the importance and underlying intelligence of this book, despite its flaws. Sommers had the courage to stand up to those who would suppress a generation of boys in the service of a flawed utopian ideal, and her courage gave strength to many who followed. I only wish that conservative critiques like this one did not feel the need to stand so hard on polemics.

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Une analyse des dérives du féminisme en matière d'éducation

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Cet ouvrage n'est pas destiné aux amateurs du politiquement correct ni aux défenseurs invétérés du féminisme. Mais à ceux curieux des tendances profondes qui influencent l'évolution de notre société.

L'auteur, professeur de philosophie pendant 15 ans, écrivit ce livre à la fin des années 1990, puis l'a repris dans une nouvelle édition, afin de mettre à jour notamment les études scientifiques sur lesquelles elle s'était appuyée en premier lieu. Elle évolue dorénavant au sein de l'American Enterprise Institute, plutôt proche de l'aile réaliste du parti républicain.

Ce livre aborde la manière dont le système éducatif américain, après une longue évolution débutée dans les années 1980, a progressivement rendu la vie de plus en plus difficile aux garçons à l'école. Bien que centré sur les Etats-Unis, le livre évoque également la Grande-Bretagne et l'Australie, et ses leçons sont tout à fait valides pour la France (bien que les chiffres soient différents bien entendu).

L'auteur évoque tout d'abord les nombreux programmes fédéraux américains développés en matière d'éducation au cours des 30 dernières années qui ont, et souvent à juste titre, largement favorisé et soutenu la progression des jeunes femmes au sein du système scolaire et universitaire afin de compenser le désavantage historique dont elles avaient souffert. Bien que reconnaissant un certain mérite à ces programmes, l'auteur tient à mettre en exergue très vite les conséquences néfastes, voire parfois désastreuses, que ces réformes du système scolaire américain ont eu sur les garçons. C'est à ce titre, en documentant très sérieusement ses assertions, qu'elle dénonce les manigances d'une partie du lobby féministe, totalement sourd à ce drame.
L'auteur démontre scrupuleusement comment les jeunes garçons sont vite stigmatisés dans un environnement éducatif devenu extrêmement féminisé, tant au regard du personnel qu'au regard des valeurs qui y sont désormais véhiculées. Elle s'indigne du fait que les garçons risquent de devenir très rapidement le 2ème sexe, alors même que le lobby féminin et les hommes politiques à sa botte continuent de faire la sourde oreille, et continuent de ne se préoccuper que de l'avancement des jeunes femmes.
L'auteur dénonce, dans la logique des débats sur la théorie du genre qui animent les cercles universitaires américains, mais également français, la volonté de certaines féministes de changer la nature masculine.

S'appuyant sur du bon sens, et armée d'arguments incisifs, Christina Hoff Summers jette un véritable pavé dans la mare pour prendre la défense de la vaste entreprise d'émasculation entreprise à l'encontre de nos jeunes garçons, et pour défendre une société où hommes et femmes évolueraient à égalité, dans le respect des différences de chacun.

A rapprocher, bien que très différent dans l'approche, du livre "Nos garçons en danger" du psychologue français Stéphane Clerget.

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A PRECARIOUS SITUATION

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The author writes (p. 199): "The public has given no one a mandate to pursue a policy of privileging girls." And yet, as Christina Hoff Sommers repeats in the revised edition of her 2000 book, a small group of ideological feminists have claimed that Americans should do that, and from many quarters there is evidence that they have. This "New and Revised Edition" of "THE WAR AGAINST BOYS" is a welcome return of an important book. Sommers, a philosopher by education and a mother of two boys, shows that the trend she identified in the late 1990s to see boys as defective girls and therefore somehow in need of retooling has continued, and its effects have spread. The importance of Sommers' book lies especially in pointing out the misrepresentations of fact by leading advocates of making over boyhood. She takes to task the reputation of a major research institution for having missed oversight of assertions presumably based on scientific investigation that are, in fact, wishful thinking on the part of high-profile faculty. Her target is Carol Gilligan in particular, who managed to convince important activists, journalists and others in the media about the presumed defectiveness of boys that results from the dominance of patriarchy in American society. Go to this book if you are a parent. Take it to school administrators especially if your children are in grade school but realize that contempt for men and masculinity is now pervasive in higher education as well. If you are paying $50,000+ a year for a son's education, check out what courses are being taught that are disparage the young men in class. Sommers is a feminist in the way anyone who is clear-thinking is a feminist: someone who supports women in having access to education and employment opportunities of every kind. She is, however, a potent opponent of ideological feminists (contemporary "gender equity" feminists). As Sommers points out, regardless of the claims of social constructivists, boys and girls are different, and they cannot be refashioned to feel and experience and act in ways that are not part of their disposition (her word). There are biobehavioral realities that are well-documented but simply ignored by a small group of feminists (male and female) who insist loudly that even the possibility of basic differences between the sexes exist. She is a fan of masculinity in the traditional sense. It is pretty obvious that so are MOST women, too. Sommers provides examples of schools that harm boys and schools that support them. She points out that federal government opposes many initiatives in public and private schooling that would support boys in their growing up. She notes that in Australia and the UK such efforts to do better by boys are under way, but they are nipped in the bud in the States, mostly by virtue of the threat of law suits. She points to the complicity of all three branches of the federal government in standing in the way of even trying boy-friendly practices in school. Finally, she repeats that the tendency of thinking of boys as somehow psychologically ill as a result of being raised as their bodies tell them they must experience the world must be distinguished from the consequence of real harm suffered by boys in an environment that tells them there is something wrong with them for being boys. This is an important book for speaking out on behalf of boys and cutting through the rhetoric and false claims of so-called gender specialists who have taken over academe and whose pronouncements resound in the echo chamber (her metaphor) of the media.

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in pre school and primary school do better academically. You would think that better educated boys ...

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This book details how feminists in the US have used fraudulent research, claiming girls to be in crisis when they are not and in fact it is boys who are being outperformed, to get special programs in schools for their own political ends.

The book also shows how feminists are interfering with boys normal harmless play. The author shows the type of behaviour that does cause harm in boys. As is happens when Tony Blair was the UK prim minister he pointed out research that shows that boys who play with boys stereotyped toys, including to toy guns, in pre school and primary school do better academically. You would think that better educated boys would be less violent rather than more.

Sommers points out the general types of educational settings that give better behaviour and academic results in boys including more guided learning and stricter discipline.

As it happens I was studying maths in the mid 1990's in Australia and our lecturers had to have a special meeting of all the maths students because the ability of maths and engineering students had fallen so badly in the previous 15 years. This happens to be the time when girls school and university marks went from behind to ahead of boys. That there should be a large overall reduction in ability when half the population has improved so much is hard to understand and is more like the legitimate advantages of boys are not being taught or assessed properly. Also during this time, and earlier, work kept being removed from high school science, such as parts of the REDOX and carbon chemistry electives for final year chemistry in 1984, and in every case girls marks improved.

Also while I was studying maths the state education minister Virginia Chadwick said the words "Boys read maps better, so we changed them." Boys tend to get the specific thing from the whole better due to their spatial advantage, say, which is a legitimate part of real world activity. This has lead to question types to be created that are designed to get answers right, say by being more discrete, rather than including legitimate cognitive areas thus improving girls marks

I think the deliberate hindering of boys in school has lead to the above mentioned poor ability in the areas historically done well by boys in universities causing universities to have to dumb down the work where girls have had their problems as universities don't want high a failure rates. In 1994 all students where I studied were told that there would be a failure restriction of .15% in all classes with 30 or more in the class due to federal government funding changes. The maths degree did not have a single compliant subject although 15 years earlier before the girls improved at school and university as much the maths people would not have had a problem with this failure restriction. When I did data structures only 30% of the class passed, all the girls failed, then the next time they had to pass 85%.

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Dr. W

Nothing short of inspired

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Whilst a review is, by nature, subjective, one has to say that if you have not awarded this outstanding treatise five stars, then you have probably either missed the point or possess insufficient intellectual faculty to conceive and rationalise the truth Hoff Sommers presents herein; which is essentially nothing short of a Doctoral thesis. In reality the laymen seldom reads academia and so that could detract somewhat from what is ultimately a compelling and above all a flawlessly researched academic text.

Although the text is, itself a little old, the central thesis and conjecture undoubtedly remain as relevant today as it was when it first hit the press nearly a decade ago, back in 2000. That thesis being that feminist (female supremacists, as they should be called) will stop at nothing to advance their perverse agenda. Be it distorting the facts, engaging in 'truthiness' or whatever means are employed to justify the end. This text gives an impartial blow-by-blow account of the methods, the movement and the main protagonists in what is ultimately a fascistic and wholly repugnant charade that masquerades as a genuine concern movement which has the concern of girls at its heart. What it fact has at its core is a manifesto of supremacy and domination, playing God with Darwinian evolution and the history of biological development.

Without revealing too much to the potential reader, all I should say is please read this text, check the research and the references for yourselves, do some further research and read a few more texts. Then with a clear head and a clear heart arrive at your own conclusion. A conclusion which any sane individual (who is devoid of an agenda) will reach, arriving at a place called disbelief.

I also recommend that any educator read this text, to see how you may be unwittingly contributing to the greater problem by your personal pedagogical philosophy and approach to classroom management. I personally found chapter eight 'The Moral Life of Boys' to be a real treat,

This book works for a number of reasons, amongst which I would include the following:
i) It is flawlessly researched
ii) Hoff Sommers is a REAL academic, a real intellectual who, despite also having an agenda, is clearly sane and rational in her conclusions and suggestions.
iii) Its structure, cohesion and central thesis are all articulate and concisely presented, the author is professional and largely impartial.
iv) It is relevant to anyone who has a child, especially a male child.
v) It will make the reader think and consider what they have just read and hopefully want to go out and validate those arguments.

To conclude, this is a superb book, an outstanding argument coherently and concisely put forth. Although it is real academia it is a quick read and does not alienate the non-academic reader.

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