Question

Psychologists Carol Gilligan argued in the 1980s and 1990s that the social deck is stacked against girls from infancy through adolescence, putting their physical and mental health at risk. What is Christina Hoff Sommers’s position on this topic?

Answer 1

Sommers believes that boys are inadvertently penalized for the shortchanging of girls, boys suffer more than girls in education and adolescent health.

Christina Hoff Sommers is an American writer and philosopher, known for her critique of late 20th century feminism and her writings on feminism in contemporary American culture. His most widely discussed books are Who Stole Feminism? : How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War Against Boys. Although her critics characterize her as an anti-feminist, Sommers describes herself as a "feminist of equality" who fights contemporary feminism for her alleged hostility towards men.