Gender & Sexuality Studies

This guide is designed to make your research into issues of gender and sexuality easier. It is continually being updated, and as such is a work-in-progress. Feedback is welcome.

• Need articles? Use the Databases: Finding Articles & More tab, which lists appropriate and helpful databases to search.

• I have provided tips and resources for broad areas of focus: women's, men's, gender, and sexuality topics.  These are not mutually exclusive, but I am hoping the distinctions may help you focus and explore.

Please contact me with questions or for individualized research assistance!
 

GSS Courses offered in Spring 2026

GSS prefix courses:

GSS 245OL Popular Constructions of Gen and Sexuality–Prof Titus

GSS 318OL Gender and Communication–Prof Weidhaas

GSS 320 Sex, Gender, and Fairy Tales–Prof Joseph

Note: GSS 320 counts for aesthetic perspective in CAS core

GSS crosslisted courses:

MCS 110/GSS 110  Race, Class, and Gender–Prof Cordonnier

MCS 110/GSS 110OL Race, Class, and Gender–Prof Brown

ENG 230/GSS 230  Women and Literature–Prof Harris

HIS 309/GSS 309  Women in American History–Prof Ryan

Courses in other depts that count for the minor:

ENG 350  Sex and Sin in Early American Lit–Prof Ross

PHL 230 Philosophy of the Sexes–Prof Nicholson

PSY 118 Psychology of Women–Prof King

PSY 374 Psychology of the Family–Prof Demant

J-Term

GSS prefix courses:

MCS 110/GSS 110OL Race, Class, and Gender–Prof Rusciano

GSS 212OL Gender, War, and Peace–Prof Barbara Franz

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Have questions?  Interested in declaring a GSS minor? 

Contact: Dr. Erica Ryan, Director

LAH 105

eryan@rider.edu