Academic Quote by Bell Hooks

For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western…

— Heather Mac Donald

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and…

— Camille Paglia

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

— Caitlin Moran

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible…

— Bell Hooks

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

“To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not…

— Sara Ahmed

“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in…

— Gloria Steinem

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most…

— Denise Mina

Going to school and learning feminism is one thing and living feminism is another.

— Richa Chadha