Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.
December 5, 2018
„The decision by the Hungarian government earlier this fall to withdraw accreditation from gender studies programs — a full-frontal governmental assault on an academic discipline — sent shock waves through the field.
Gender studies „has no business [being taught] in universities,“ because it is „an ideology not a science,“ a deputy to Hungary’s prime minister, Zsolt Semjen, told the international news agency Agence France-Presse.
Semjen also said labor market demand for the field was „close to zero.“
„No one wants to employ a gender-ologist,“ Semjen said.
Yet even if the scale of the assault on gender studies in Hungary was shocking, the rhetoric was not. Gender studies scholars say what happened in Hungary is the most extreme manifestation of what seem to be growing attacks on the discipline as right-wing populist parties gain power or influence in many countries around the globe.“ (…)
Gender studies „has no business [being taught] in universities,“ because it is „an ideology not a science,“ a deputy to Hungary’s prime minister, Zsolt Semjen, told the international news agency Agence France-Presse.
Semjen also said labor market demand for the field was „close to zero.“
„No one wants to employ a gender-ologist,“ Semjen said.
Yet even if the scale of the assault on gender studies in Hungary was shocking, the rhetoric was not. Gender studies scholars say what happened in Hungary is the most extreme manifestation of what seem to be growing attacks on the discipline as right-wing populist parties gain power or influence in many countries around the globe.“ (…)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/05/gender-studies-scholars-say-field-coming-under-attack-many-countries-around-globe
Kommentar GB:
Es handelt sich den Gender Studies m. E. um eine Ideologie, und zugleich um einen großangelegten, und für die Gesellschaft um einen ebenso teuren wie nutzlosen Wissenschaftsbluff.
Und das hat überhaupt nichts mit „links“ oder „rechts“ im politischen Sinne zu tun.
Siehe hierzu:
Dr. Wulf Krause: Freud, Gender und die Massenpsychologie der Gleichheit
Dritte veränderte und korrigierte Auflage, Hannover, 2018
Amazon, eBook.de etc.
http://www.gender-diskurs.de/2017/10/wulf-krause-freud-gender-massenpsychologie-der-gleichheit/
