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In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today, Christina Hoff Sommers seeks to recover the lost history of American feminism by introducing readers to conservative feminism’s forgotten heroines. More importantly, she demonstrates that a modern version of conservative feminism—in which women are free to employ their equal status to pursue happiness in their own distinctive ways—holds the key to a feminist renaissance. Freedom Feminism is a primer in the Values & Capitalism series intended for college students.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she studies the politics of gender and feminism, as well as free expression, due process, and the preservation of liberty in the academy. Before joining AEI, Dr. Sommers was a philosophy professor at Clark University.
She is best known for her defense of classical liberal feminism and her critique of gender feminism. Her books include “Freedom Feminism—Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today” (AEI, 2013); “One Nation Under Therapy” (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), coauthored with Sally Satel; “The War Against Boys” (Simon & Schuster, 2001 and 2013), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2001; and “Who Stole Feminism?” (Simon & Schuster, 1995). Her textbook, “Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life,” currently in its ninth edition, is a bestseller in college ethics.
Her writings have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In addition to frequent radio and television appearances, Dr. Sommers is the host of the popular video blog, The Factual Feminist.
Dr. Sommers has a PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University and a BA from New York University.
Contents
Introduction
1. Feminist Foremothers: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Mary Wollstonecraft: The First Feminist Philosopher
Hannah More and the Bluestockings
Frances Willard: “Saint Frances of American Womanhood”
2. The Second Wave: Since 1960
The Great Convergence
The Rise and Fall of the Era
The Formidable Mrs. Schlafly
Women Under Freedom
3. Contemporary Feminism and a Way Forward
Feminist Theory and Its Discontents
Feminist Ms.information
The Feminist Brain Trust
Conclusion
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
About the Author