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Or if it’s taught as part of the regular curricula, does it get sufficient attention, in respondents’ opinion?

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which communist state's universities? I think the answer will be very different depending on the country. China absolutely has those kinds of courses. They offer Women's Studies at Peking University and Gender Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Probably you can find similar courses at other Chinese universities too. Maybe not at all Chinese universities, but almost certainly at the bigger ones unless they are specifically focused just on STEM. China has had for years now academic ties with Western universities and adopted a lot of these kinds of social studies courses in collaboration with visiting scholars from US universities for example. Sometimes this can be a good thing, other times it's a double edged sword, as it has injected a lot of liberalism into Chinese academia, especially in economics but also partially in social studies.

I don't know about other socialist states, you would have to look up what courses their universities offer, but i would be surprised if Cuba didn't offer them, and probably also Vietnam.

But this would be a newer development, which, as i said, is inspired by the diffusion of these ideas from the West and the academic disciplines and theories that have been popularized in the social sciences in Western academia. Historically i think socialist states had a different framework for looking at these issues and would treat them through a more orthodox Marxist social lens rather than the somewhat liberal framework that these fields exist within in the West (and even when a Marxist lens is applied in Western academia, typically it is in the Frankfurt school style, not the Soviet style).

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes this can be a good thing, other times it’s a double edged sword, as it has injected a lot of liberalism into Chinese academia, especially in economics but also partially in social studies...

One good and pure thing. One day we will have it.