Barricades at the Ivory Tower: The University as a Site of Struggle
Published online on March 30, 2026
Abstract
Gender & Society, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 245-254, April 2026.
This essay argues that the current assault on academia represents not an unprecedented crisis of academic freedom, but the enduring contradictions of liberalism and the U.S. university. Rejecting liberal nostalgia for a past that never secured freedom for ...
This essay argues that the current assault on academia represents not an unprecedented crisis of academic freedom, but the enduring contradictions of liberalism and the U.S. university. Rejecting liberal nostalgia for a past that never secured freedom for ...