{"product_id":"how-gender-studies-broke-the-university-9781634312806","title":"How Gender Studies Broke the University","description":"\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.\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Burack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitchstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781634312806","brand":"Pitchstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48460573606025,"sku":"9781634312806","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b688c67d-4bc5-4755-80a8-0701e1120897.jpg?v=1790664939","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/how-gender-studies-broke-the-university-9781634312806","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}