Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academics

Distinguished Lecture Series

Title: Where the Boys Are

Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D.
W.H. Brady Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C.

February 3, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Texas A&M University

Abstract

Boys are politically incorrect. Their raucous style of play makes a lot of adults very nervous. They are the one group of Americans who are not eager to talk about their feelings. It is now the fashion in many elementary school classrooms to try to tame boys, to calm them down and to make them behave more like girls. Will it work? Is this a good idea? Christina Hoff Sommers will argue that the answer to both questions is no.

About the Speaker

Christina Hoff Sommers is the W. H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D. C. She has a doctor of philosophy degree in philosophy from Brandeis University and was formerly a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. 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.