Tag: gender studies

"There is a stubbornness in me that does not tolerate being intimidated by the will of others. My courage rises at every attempt to frighten me'. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 An earthquake is shaking Anglo-Saxon universities. Gender-critical female professors have provoked it, risking their careers by denouncing the loss of academic freedom and the intimidating climate in which sex, gender and gender identity are discussed. "The gender identity movement is erasing people's freedom of speech and the academic freedom of anyone who does not [...]

Gender studies, which was born to welcome female knowledge and represent it in the academies, has long since become a transfeminist and queer reserve (Julie Bindel explains it here). Provincially, Italian universities are in line with the trend - the phenomenon is consolidated in the Anglo-Saxon world and indeed shows some signs of abating - and in their educational offerings they do not fail to include proposals such as this one from the University of Turin, Department of Law: "Seminar on Lgbtq+ Law" (?), a compendium of the themes of that subculture - [...]