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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men by [Sommers, Christina Hoff]

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An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.

Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded w ith concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. Now, after two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women have made massive strides in education. Today they outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being.

Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it’s time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help. Called “provocative and controversial . . . impassioned and articulate” (The Christian Science Monitor), this edition of The War Against Boys offers a new preface and six radically revised chapters, plus updates on the current status of boys throughout the book.

Sommers argues that the problem of male underachievement is persistent and worsening. Among the new topics Sommers tackles: how the war against boys is harming our economic future, and how boy-averse trends such as the decline of recess and zero-tolerance disciplinary policies have turned our schools into hostile environments for boys. As our schools become more feelings-centered, risk-averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic needs of boys. She offers realistic, achievable solutions to these problems that include boy-friendly pedagogy, character and vocational education, and the choice of single-sex classrooms.

The War Against Boys is an incisive, rigorous, and heartfelt argument in favor of recognizing and confronting a new reality: boys are languishing in education and the price of continued neglect is economically and socially prohibitive.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (August 20, 2013)
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A PRECARIOUS SITUATION

August 26, 2013

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The author writes (p. 199): "The public has given no one a mandate to pursue a policy of privileging girls." And yet, as Christina Hoff Sommers repeats in the revised edition of her 2000 book, a small group of ideological feminists have claimed that Americans should do that, and from many quarters there is evidence that they have. This "New and Revised Edition" of "THE WAR AGAINST BOYS" is a welcome return of an important book. Sommers, a philosopher by education and a mother of two boys, shows that the trend she identified in the late 1990s to see boys as defective girls and therefore somehow in need of retooling has continued, and its effects have spread. The importance of Sommers' book lies especially in pointing out the misrepresentations of fact by leading advocates of making over boyhood. She takes to task the reputation of a major research institution for having missed oversight of assertions presumably based on scientific investigation that are, in fact, wishful thinking on the part of high-profile faculty. Her target is Carol Gilligan in particular, who managed to convince important activists, journalists and others in the media about the presumed defectiveness of boys that results from the dominance of patriarchy in American society. Go to this book if you are a parent. Take it to school administrators especially if your children are in grade school but realize that contempt for men and masculinity is now pervasive in higher education as well. If you are paying $50,000+ a year for a son's education, check out what courses are being taught that are disparage the young men in class. Sommers is a feminist in the way anyone who is clear-thinking is a feminist: someone who supports women in having access to education and employment opportunities of every kind. She is, however, a potent opponent of ideological feminists (contemporary "gender equity" feminists). As Sommers points out, regardless of the claims of social constructivists, boys and girls are different, and they cannot be refashioned to feel and experience and act in ways that are not part of their disposition (her word). There are biobehavioral realities that are well-documented but simply ignored by a small group of feminists (male and female) who insist loudly that even the possibility of basic differences between the sexes exist. She is a fan of masculinity in the traditional sense. It is pretty obvious that so are MOST women, too. Sommers provides examples of schools that harm boys and schools that support them. She points out that federal government opposes many initiatives in public and private schooling that would support boys in their growing up. She notes that in Australia and the UK such efforts to do better by boys are under way, but they are nipped in the bud in the States, mostly by virtue of the threat of law suits. She points to the complicity of all three branches of the federal government in standing in the way of even trying boy-friendly practices in school. Finally, she repeats that the tendency of thinking of boys as somehow psychologically ill as a result of being raised as their bodies tell them they must experience the world must be distinguished from the consequence of real harm suffered by boys in an environment that tells them there is something wrong with them for being boys. This is an important book for speaking out on behalf of boys and cutting through the rhetoric and false claims of so-called gender specialists who have taken over academe and whose pronouncements resound in the echo chamber (her metaphor) of the media.

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October 9, 2017

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If only half of what is in this book is true, I mourn for our boys. My wife and I only had daughters. Now with two grandsons, we saw differences since infancy. Not that we were surprised. Acknowledging that men and women are different is not to say that one should be subservient or is less in any way than the other. Why can't they see that?

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August 14, 2017

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...will set you free! Seriously, though, this information HAS to be spread like wildfire and locusts into the minds and hopefully the hearts of those of us who are uninformed, hateful towards the "patriarchy", or generally left-leaning (like me. no offense to anyone, but it's also more of an ideological ignorance, as well, since mainstream media avoids this kind of talk).

I was also one of the many boys who was too smart for his own good, couldn't be reined in, and was put on ADHD meds at a young age.

Thank you, Christina Hoff Sommers, for shedding some much needed light on this horrible epidemic.

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There Is A War Against Being A Boy

August 6, 2016

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I bought this copy for my daughter who has three young sons. I have my own copy and was troubled by the exposure of the atmosphere surrounding boys and how their very nature is being used as a weapon against them. If you have sons or grandson I'd recommend you read this and think about what's going on...

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Very Compelling in its sounding the alarm

November 21, 2017

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This book is very compelling and straightforward in the case it puts forward that there is a "war against boys." It is also very clear and precise in the arguments and evidence precented to make the case. At the same time the author does not "attack" needlessly the "other side," but just states where they are lacking in making their case. Overall it is a very entertaining and informative book.

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Who’s making war on American boys?

June 13, 2018

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I didn’t know how bad the boys were doing in relation to the girls. I was even more astounded to learn that England and Australia are 10 years ahead of the U.S. in getting male performance up to female performance in school. What is even more astounding is the politics causing foot dragging. Is business and military paying attention? At least for teachers it would be excellent to help bring up male performance like the Brits and Aussies!

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Joseph Rudnicki

"Girls in School are Shortchanged" is today's Zeitgeist. No one wants to hear about the boys yet.

October 31, 2017

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Yes; true, but the well-reasoned ideas and support fall flat on the populace. No avalanche of reasoning related to "girls are short-changed" is going anywhere in today's Zeitgeist.

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must read for teachers

August 4, 2017

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This book confirms much of what I have seen, for many years, as a teacher. I plan to implement some of Ms. Sommers' ideas in my classroom.

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