{"id":325975,"date":"2025-02-07T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=325975"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:25:55","slug":"ithaca-college-feminist-theory-resist-abortion-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ithaca-college-feminist-theory-resist-abortion-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ithaca College offers course on ‘feminist theory’ to discuss ‘how to… resist abortion bans’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A report from The College Fix<\/a> notes that a political theory course offered at Ithaca College in New York this semester intends to teach students “about Abortion Bans, Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, and more from an Intersectional Feminist Lens,” according to an entry posted<\/a> on the college’s Intercom online bulletin board by the course’s instructor.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot: Online Intercom Bulletin Board – Ithaca College<\/p><\/div>\n

The bulletin board post asks in the first line, “How should we interpret and resist abortion bans<\/strong> and anti-LGBTQ legislation?…” (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

The College Fix author Jeanine Yuen writes that though the course began with 13 students enrolled out of 20 available spaces, three students have apparently dropped the course:<\/p>\n

At least three students have dropped from the course in the past two weeks \u2013 there are now 10 students enrolled as of Feb. 5. When The College Fix first looked on Jan. 22 there were thirteen students enrolled out of twenty seats.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Sumru Atuk, who teaches the course, did not respond to multiple requests for information via email through voicemail in the past several weeks. The Fix asked for the course\u2019s syllabus and about the specific pressing issues the course will cover.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Atuk \u201cresearches femicide\/feminicide in Turkey and Mexico\u201d and \u201cinstitutional dimensions of gender-based violence, feminist theory, modern and contemporary political theory, theories of biopower, and digital political participation,\u201d according to her personal website.<\/em><\/p>\n