Gender and sexuality studies - Definition and Overview

Gender and sexuality studies is a collective term for the interdisciplinary study of human gender and sexuality. It includes such fields as women's studies, lesbian and gay studies, and gender study. Some scholars in those fields reject this term.

Some basic topics/key words in gender and sexuality studies to get started:

(some of these probably don't have that much to do with G&SS itself, but more with what G&SS studies)

• abortion
• AIDS
• bisexual
• BDSM
• erotophobia
• Susan Faludi
• famous gay lesbian or bisexual people
• feminism
• gay
  • gay topics
• Gay Games
• gay pride
• gay rights
• gay rights movement
• gender-blind
• gender gap
• gender identity
• gender role
• heterosexual
• heterosexism
• history of homosexuality
• homosexual, homosexuality
• International Lesbian and Gay Association
• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• intersexual
• Kinsey scale
• legal aspects of transsexualism
• lesbian, lesbianism
• marriage
• masculism
• metrosexual
• nullification
• Camile Paglia
• paraphilia
  • pedophilia
• pederasty
• pomosexual
• pornography
• James W. Prescott
• prostitution
• queer studies, queer theory, queer
• Queer community
• Queer culture
• Re Kevin - validity of marriage of transsexual
• religion and homosexuality,
• sex, sexual behaviors, sexuality
• sex-positive
• sex in advertising
• sex in science fiction
• sodomy
• skoptic syndrome
• Gloria Steinem
• Stonewall riots
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
• Third-World Feminism
• Transgender
  • List of transgender-related topics

Slang terms for keyword searches: butch, femme, drag queen, faggot, dyke, trannie.

External links

http://www.qrd.org/