‘ Subjugation of people’ and ‘ communist books’ among topics of discussion
” Pregnancy bans” and “anti-LGBTQ+ policy” are two of the issues that an Ithaca College sure does explore this quarter using an “intersectional female lens”.
The private college in New York says the school’s issues, including the emancipation of prison, are “increasingly important and crucial to our normal lives”.
The social science program focuses on” the subjection of women and people of the LGBTQ community, historic and contemporary”, according to Homerconnect, the school’s training membership site.
It is inspired by the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and other donors to “feminist philosophy” including the makers of” socialist books, extreme sexism, Black female thought, and post-colonial feminism”.
The subscription page states further:
The sexual division of labor, accepting or rejecting the issues of the sexual division of labor, accepting or rejecting the link between physical and school oppression, and another important historical and contemporary female debates are topics that should be discussed throughout.
There are currently 10 students enrolled in the course as of February 5 after at least three pupils have dropped out of the program in the previous two weeks. Thirteen learners enrolled out of twenty votes when The College Fix second looked on January 22.
In the past few weeks, Professor Sumru Atuk, the course’s instructor, has been unable to listen to numerous contact inquiries via voicemail. The Fix inquired about the school’s course and the particular pressing issues the course will address.
According to her site, Professor Atuk “researches femicide/feminicide in Turkey and Mexico” and “institutional dimensions of gender-based crime, female theory, modern and contemporary social theory, theories of biopower, and modern political participation”, according to her private website.
The executive director of Feminists Choosing Life of New York, a pro-life group, says courses should have multiple perspectives. According to Michelle Sterlace-Accorsi, feminist theory courses should assist students in formulating their own opinions after reviewing relevant information.
” Students should have comprehensive, balanced ( not unilaterally driven ) content regarding topics of study, especially where such topics are controversial and contain data/studies that supports/opposes various perspectives”, Sterlace-Accorsi told The Fix via email.
She said courses like this, which study a specific political ideology,” should include and discuss divergent perspectives/philosophies. If they don’t, they’re likely to fuel caustic polarization, squash critical dialogue and thwart forging meaningful and peaceful solutions, impacts that are antithesis to real progress”.
Additionally, the communications and policy director for Students for Life of America made comments on bias in higher education in general.
In general, Kristi Hamrick told The Fix via email that” [t]he pro-abortion bias in academia is obvious in the number of classes that celebrate ending life and disparage a family structure that has been fundamental in world civilizations, no matter the religion or nation.
Students have told Hamrick numerous tales of prejudice they experience when they uphold traditional family values.
The free, open marketplace of ideas is instead an expensive, closed, and prejudiced small circle of politically correct thinking, Hamrick said, which is tragic on too many college and university campuses.
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