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Shifting Discipline in Women's Studies: Studies of Masculinities, Pornographies, and Sexualities

According to the Associated Press, when the University of Iowa put a course entitled Critical Pornography Studies in their catalog for fall 2005, the Speaker of the Iowa House, Republican Chris Rants, became involved and threatened, "Do they [the university] know that we're not done with their budget yet? I'm pretty sure we don't need to increase state funding by $40 million to teach critical pornography studies" (Spitzer 2005). The fact that the class is actually sure to be a moneymaker for the university it is fully enrolled and taught by a graduate student is not Rants's point. Rants simply asserts that he is willing to use a single course to hold higher education funding hostage, no doubt with the hope of pressuring university officials to alter curriculum. In contrast, the course was simply a joke for Jay Leno, who quipped, "Imagine how tired your hand would be after that final" (2005). Women's studies programs are already acutely aware of the ways our courses regularly contain content demonized by right-wing politicians and are laughed at by the media. We study and discuss issues of reproductive rights, sexuality, critical race studies, critical media studies, and gender construction, occasionally in the jargon-filled language of the academy. In her nationally syndicated radio program, Dr. Laura Schlessinger counsels parents not to let their children attend colleges with women's studies programs. Columnist David Reinhard of The Oregonian condemns the University of Oregon's diversity mandate because it, among other things, promotes cluster hires in areas such as "critical race studies, critical gender studies, and queer studies" (2005) areas of central importance to building an active and diverse women's studies faculty. In April 2005, an Alabama Republican, Gerald Allen, introduced a bill into the state legislature that would keep works by gay authors or about gay characters from being