Professor refuses order to teach on feminist author for sake of gender balance

The College Fix reports:

A Swedish professor is making international headlines after refusing to obey an instructional gender quota at his university that called on him to teach a feminist author as part of his course curriculum to ensure gender balance.

While the scholar has not faced professional sanctions for that conscientious objection, done in the name of academic freedom, uproar over his decision has led him to stop teaching the course.

The controversy began after Erik Ringmar, a senior political science lecturer at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, recently decided to omit author Judith Butler from the syllabus of a course he was teaching, “Modern Society and Its Critics.”

Butler is a noted American feminist academic who has done much to advance the concepts of gender fluidity and queer theory. Ringmar dropped a section on postmodernism from his course, which included a reading by Butler.

This change had to be approved by his social science department, but they denied it based on a rule it has which stipulates that at least 40 percent of the reading list of any given course must be composed by women. The committee told Ringmar keep Butler on his syllabus.

When he taught the course over the fall, he left Butler out, upsetting students and becoming ​the subject of widespread media attention in Sweden

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