Abstract
This chapter reflects on current political activism against Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (WGFS) in Germany, arguing that this activism simultaneously poses a threat to the institutionalisation of Gender Studies and creates promising effects. In making this argument, I will first reconstruct the institutionalisation of Gender Studies and compare it to the historical emergence of engineering as an academic discipline. I will then recapitulate feminist research on historical misogyny in academia and the political relevance of gender research, followed by a discussion of current attacks on gender activism and research that bank on academic scepticism towards gender research as a door-opener into the political mainstream. I will conclude by presenting a number of hopeful developments that are, I argue, partly the – unintended – result of political activism against gender research by the far-right party AfD (Alternative for Germany).
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