Hungary’s Attack on Gender Studies. A threatening online message and institutional inaction exposes the official illiberalism: A threatening online message and institutional inaction exposes the official illiberalism

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Abby L. Ferber, in her 2017 presidential address at the meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society, analyzed the threats and harassment educators face in institutions of higher education in the United States — quoted Malcom X: “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” Historically, as in the case of Giordano Bruno or Spinoza, scientific work was accompanied by receiving daily threats. Nowadays we, as scholars, falsely believe that we are working in a secure academic environment, but this is increasing not the case. The question is, how did the intellectual work of teaching and scientific research become a life-threatening occupation once again? Finding an answer is ever more urgent for those of us in the field of gender studies.
Original languageEnglish
VolumeNovember 29
Specialist publicationPublic Seminar
StatePublished - 2018

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