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Feminism: Too Far?

Has "feminism" gone too far? Is feminism about equal rights for all, or special privileges for women? Here are some articles that will give you some thoughts ...

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Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers. Has Feminism Gone Too Far? Guests: Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers. National Public Radio: Think Tank™ With Ben Wattenberg. Airdate: November 4, 1994. By special arrangement with Think Tank

Where Are the Boys? by Christina Hoff Sommers. Speech based on the themes of her book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.

Book review and Preface of the book Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture.

The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls: Social Science in the Service of Deception, by Prof. Judith E. Kleinfeld. The AAUW study How Schools Shortchange Girls is false political propaganda, Dr. Kleinfeld documents.

The Hag and the Dark Feminime, an interview with Carolyn Baker, by Bert H. Hoff

Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?, by Michael Weiss and Cathy Young. Cato Policy Analysis No. 256, June 19, 1996

Shadow Feminism and the Reunion of Men and Women, by Carolyn Baker, from her book Hags, Witches and Ogres: The Healing and Creative Power of the Feminine Shadow

Feminism(after C.G. Jung, F.A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, Warren Farrell, Camille Paglia, & Christina Hoff Sommers), by Kelly Ross, Ph.D.

Book review, Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies (order on-line).

Of Mice and Men: Reflections and Confessions on "The Masculine", by Suzanne Nadon

Bobbitt: Blaming the Victim, by Bert H. Hoff

Confessions of a Recovering Feminist, by Carolyn Baker

Gender Reconciliation and Progressive Social Change, by Dan Marshall

Articles from

Confronting Feminism, by David Shakleton. Editorial to Issue #28 of Everyman, Confronting Feminism

The War Against Men, by David Shakleton. Article from Issue #28 of Everyman, Confronting Feminism

The Invisible Boy. Review of a Health Canada report, The Invisible Boy; Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens, by Frederick Mathews, Ph.D., C. Psych. Review by Jeffrey Asher. Article from Issue #28 of Everyman, Confronting Feminism

When She was Bad. Review of When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence, by Patricia Pearson. (order on-line) Review by Robert F. Grantier. Article from Issue #28 of Everyman, Confronting Feminism

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