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April 11, 2026
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Sommers says feminists hurt women

By Maura Henninger | May 20, 1997

Conservative feminist Christina Hoff Sommers, the author of "Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women," last night delivered a speech that raised several controversial issues, stirring up a heated debate in a crowded 105 Dartmouth Hall. Sommers's address, titled "How Feminism Hurts Women," questioned the basic premises of the contemporary feminist movement -- a movement she sees as ruined by political correctness, victim politic and male bashing. "I wrote this book because I'm a feminist who thinks feminism has taken the wrong turn," she said. Though she credited the women's movement with providing her with unequaled opportunities, she said that it has moved in the wrong direction because of contemporary feminists' misuse and misinterpretation of statistics and a rejection of biological evidence supporting the inherent differences between the genders. Sommers prefaced her remarks with several anecdotes and a warning.

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Albee, others to receive degrees

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | May 20, 1997

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a former New Hampshire governor and a Nobel Prize-winning physician are three of the luminaries who will receive honorary degrees at the Commencement ceremonies on June 8. In addition to Commencement speaker and Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen '64, who will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, seven other Commencement guests will receive honorary doctoral degrees from the College. The recipients will be Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, postcolonial author Sir V.S.

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