Submitted on Thursday, 2/15/2018, at 2:05 PM
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently spoke with Amrita Basu, chair of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies, for an article about how women's’ studies scholars have increasingly become a target of the conservative backlash against #MeToo and other feminist causes.
“They were sad more than anything," Basu said about hate mail sent to her when right-wing pundits reported on her course "Women and Right-Wing Populism.”
“[There is] a great deal of fear and paranoia about what feminists believe and what they teach,” she told the Chronicle.