The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men - Brossura

Sommers, Christina Hoff

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ISBN 10: 0684849577 ISBN 13: 9780684849577

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Riassunto

Despite popular belief, American boys tag behind girls in reading and writing ability, and they are less likely to go to college. Our young men are greatly at risk, yet the best-known studies and experts insist that it's girls who are in need of our attention. The highly publicized "girl crisis" has led to many changes in American schools, politics, and parenting...but at what cost?

In this provocative book, Christina Hoff Sommers argues that our society has continued to overemphasize the troubles of girls while our boys suffer from the same self-esteem and academic problems. Boys need help, but not the sort of help they've been getting.

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Recensione:

Marilyn Gardner The Christian Science Monitor Provocative and controversial...Sommers's voice is impassed and articulate.

Richard Bernstein The New York Times The burden of [this] thoughtful, provocative book is that it is American boys who are in trouble, not girls. Ms. Sommers... makes these arguments persuasively and unflinchingly, with plenty of data to support them.

Mary Eberstadt The Washington Times This book promises to launch and influence an enduring national debate....The author trains her empirical and polemical skills on an issue of demonstrable and often poignant urgency.

Danielle Crittenden New York Post In Christina Hoff Sommers's splendid new book...she shows the damage that is being done to our sons by adults determined to stop them from being, well, boys.

L'autore:

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar 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. Sommers has written for numerous publications and 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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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0684849577
• ISBN 13: 9780684849577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 251