a man s habit become character. it is the look of the life time. when you do meet people in that category there is a kind of radiance. i agree. david, michael, thank you so much. [applause] booktv is on facebook. like us to get scheduling use, schedule updates, behind the scene pictures and to like authors and talk to authors. we continue with mary piper, author of the middle of everywhere, that examines the lives of refugees who have been relocated in nebraska. refugee is a legal definition and it means a person who can not stay in their country of origin because of a danger to themselves or their family. to become a refugee there has to be an adjudication process that allows a certain group of keep to be called such. i just heard on national public radio today there are 39 million internally displaced refugees. this is people in their own country but no longer have homes. it is the most people in the history of the world. i don t know the number for displaced other
american enterprise institute is the author or co-author of four nonfiction books including who stole feminism?: how women have betrayed women, mcnerney king and the revised war against boys: how misguided policies are harming our young men . christina hoff summers, how do you define feminism? in the best sense feminism is the philosophy is that says the plant women are equal before the law. they deserve the same rights, the same liberties, equal dignity end basically a philosophy of basic fairness. host: in your book who stole feminism?: how women have betrayed women you talk about the new feminism. what is the new feminism? the new feminism emerged especially in thes and 90s and is a hard-line version. i became a feminist in the 70s. i did not appreciate male chauvinism and believed in equality of opportunity. however, in the 80s and 90s, i was reading a feminist the arrests and feminist philosophers and there were furious that were so aggressive in their harshl
booktv.org. up next, christina hoff sommers talks about the policies she says harm young men. she is the co-author of four books and her newest book the war against boys christina hoff sommers, how did you define feminism? in the best sense, feminism is philosophy that says men and women are equal before the law. they deserve the same rights. the same liberties. and equal dignigity. you talk about the new feminism in your book, what is the new feminism? it emerges in the 80s and 90s. in the 70s, i believed in quality of opportunity, but in the 80s and 90s i was reading feminist writers and there were theories that were so aggressive in being one, harsh towards male. they were following the model women are from venus and men with from hell. i felt it was a reverse chauvinism. so i took exception to that. and many other things. i found that i even developed terms that i called myself an equity feminist. and the other school is gender feminism because they believe
after the government shut down one member of the tea party and there are examples on the other side as well, came out and said that is what happens, standard and poor s says the cost economy is $1 million, they just make those numbers up. is not true. wait a minute, standard and poor s is a different agency, they are moving out, that lenders out there and that does have an effect and you take the ordinary citizen and they re trying to decide what is in the best interest of their family or with you want to go in their country and having a hard time making decisions because we have a woman who works in montana, a wonderful friend who does a great job, three times week she comes across a bridge in the river quite wide eyed, you won t believe what i read on the internet. i always say the same thing. i am not going to believe what you read on the internet. we talked before hand, we fought to give you a sense of a very personal nature, what comes through in these letters is arthu