Welcome to francie and fitch book shop. We have a lot of helpers. I want to point out if you havent noticed, weve got cspan in the room, tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. So youre going to be on cspan. Ill find out when, im not sure when, but ill be finding out so you can spread the word and let people know. Mary anne andre is here, awardwinning producer of documentaries, among them under the milky way. It was absolutely beautiful. And were kind of in a little fish bowl today, right . [laughter] which is great. I also want to recognize stephanie, shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. Well kind of try and streamline that process a little bit. How the agendas going to go is im going to youre going to get some introductions of some great people that are going to talk to you about this book, therell be a q a, and afterwards youll be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, theres a lot of people
American Enterprise Institute is the author or coauthor of four nonfiction books including who stole feminism . how women have betrayed women, Mcnerney King and the revised war against boys how misguided policies are harming our young men. Christina hoff summers, how do you define feminism . In the best sense feminism is the philosophy is that says the plant women are equal before the law. They deserve the same rights, the same liberties, equal dignity end basically a philosophy of basic fairness. Host in your book who stole feminism . how women have betrayed women you talk about the new feminism. What is the new feminism . The new feminism emerged especially in thes and 90s and is a hardline version. I became a feminist in the 70s. I did not appreciate male chauvinism and believed in equality of opportunity. However, in the 80s and 90s, i was reading a feminist the arrests and feminist philosophers and there were furious that were so aggressive in their harshly anti mail. As i read th
Booktv. Org. Up next, Christina Hoff sommers talks about the policies she says harm young men. She is the coauthor of four books and her newest book the war against boys Christina Hoff sommers, how did you define feminism . In the best sense, feminism is philosophy that says men and women are equal before the law. They deserve the same rights. The same liberties. And equal dignigity. You talk about the new feminism in your book, what is the new feminism . It emerges in the 80s and 90s. In the 70s, i believed in quality of opportunity, but in the 80s and 90s i was reading feminist writers and there were theories that were so aggressive in being one, harsh towards male. They were following the model women are from venus and men with from hell. I felt it was a reverse chauvinism. So i took exception to that. And many other things. I found that i even developed terms that i called myself an equity feminist. And the other school is gender feminism because they believed in the sexgender syst
After the government shut down one member of the tea party and there are examples on the other side as well, came out and said that is what happens, standard and poors says the cost economy is 1 million, they just make those numbers up. Is not true. Wait a minute, standard and poors is a different agency, they are moving out, that lenders out there and that does have an effect and you take the ordinary citizen and theyre trying to decide what is in the best interest of their family or with you want to go in their country and having a hard time making decisions because we have a woman who works in montana, a wonderful friend who does a great job, three times week she comes across a bridge in the river quite wide eyed, you wont believe what i read on the internet. I always say the same thing. I am not going to believe what you read on the internet. We talked before hand, we fought to give you a sense of a very personal nature, what comes through in these letters is arthur was not only a