The gender studies "rot" you correctly identify as having infected most disciplines is a subset of the long-standing, leftist "long march" through the institutions.
For example, I remember the eugenicists' Malthusian-remix known as "The Club of Rome Report " being on the conservative Adelaide University Economics course reading list back in the early 70s. Of course the "Women's Lib" Hydra was beginning to sprout its late-20thC appendage at the same time.
The gender studies "rot" you correctly identify as having infected most disciplines is a subset of the long-standing, leftist "long march" through the institutions.
For example, I remember the eugenicists' Malthusian-remix known as "The Club of Rome Report " being on the conservative Adelaide University Economics course reading list back in the early 70s. Of course the "Women's Lib" Hydra was beginning to sprout its late-20thC appendage at the same time.