The Importance of Critical Race Theory in Women's Studies

Women's studies as a virus can unwork, unsettle, and dismantle commonly held assumptions about quote, truth within the university. While mindless production and consumption heavily influenced by capitalism drives the mainstream of the corporate university women's studies and its allies can prioritize the project of infection as its core principle or mission. This can have material consequences like the firing of feminist faculty, good closure of programs, good, or continue to erosion of institutionalized support. Or it can just infuse feminist classrooms and feminist research with intense emotional responses.

Transcript

Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

Get the app