{"product_id":"how-gender-studies-broke-the-university-paperback","title":"How Gender Studies Broke the University - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn emerita professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies delivers a searing account of how the modern university lost its way.\u003c\/b\u003e A decades-long insider in the academy, she argues that the progressive disciplines she once devoted her life to helped erode intellectual freedom and open inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the classroom to the dean's office, she shows how faculty and administrators fostered a culture of grievance, elevated activism over scholarship, and enforced ideological conformity in the name of social justice. The result is predictable: a campus environment where illiberal practices were institutionalized, dissent was discouraged, debate was constrained, and students were taught what to think rather than how to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting with unusual honesty about her own complicity in today's higher-education crisis, she traces how these changes unfolded and why so few were willing or able to resist them. Yet this is not only a critique--it is also a call to action. As she concludes, if universities are to survive as places of genuine learning and knowledge production--and to have any standing to challenge illiberal ideas on the right--they must acknowledge what went wrong and recommit to free speech, academic freedom, and the open exchange of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51442158829791,"sku":"9781634312806","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/59KGGp8oaZ9781634312806.webp?v=1790178656","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/how-gender-studies-broke-the-university-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}