Christina Hoff Sommers seeks to recover the lost history of American feminism by introducing readers to social feminism's forgotten heroines.

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She was a professor of philosophy at Clark University from 1981 to 1996. Sommers specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Her textbook, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, currently in its ninth edition, is a bestseller in college ethics. She became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (Touchstone Books, 1995). Her book The War against Boys (Touchstone Books, 2001) received widespread attention and praise and was excerpted for a cover story in the Atlantic Monthly. It was included in the New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year." She also coauthored One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005) with Sally Satel, M.D., and is the editor of The Science on Women and Science (AEI Press, 2009). Sommers' articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, Weekly Standard, National Review, the Economist, the New Republic, and the American. The second edition of The War against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men will be published in August 2013 (Simon and Schuster).