SOURCE: Goode, Stephen. “Detailing the Abuse of Boys.” Insight on the News (21 August 2000): 22-3.

In the following review, Goode asserts that Sommers's arguments in The War against Boys are solid, and critiques liberal reviewers who have criticized it.

In 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers published her book Who Stole Feminism? and all hell broke loose. An unrelenting attack on the radical elements of the women's movement, the book earned Sommers, then a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., a very bad name among many feminists. But it won admiration from conservatives and such maverick culture critics as Camille Paglia, who declared, “I regard Christina Sommers as one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our time.”

Now Sommers has brought out another controversial book, The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, which hardly was at bookstores this summer before it began “to spark...