Gender and sexuality studies

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 Studies. Some scholars in those fields reject this term.

Some basic topics/key words in gender and sexuality studies to get started: (note that some of these may not have that much to do with G&SS itself, but rather with the subjects studied in G&SS)


 * abortion
 * AIDS
 * bisexuality
 * BDSM
 * erotophobia
 * Susan Faludi
 * List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people
 * feminism
 * gay
 * queer
 * gay topics
 * Gay Games
 * gay pride
 * gay rights
 * gay rights movement
 * gender-blind
 * gender gap
 * gender identity
 * gender role
 * genital modification and mutilation
 * heterosexuality
 * heterosexism
 * history of homosexuality
 * homosexuality
 * International Lesbian and Gay Association
 * International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
 * intersexual
 * Kinsey scale
 * legal aspects of transsexualism
 * lesbian
 * marriage
 * masculism
 * metrosexual
 * nullification
 * Camille 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
 * Third-World Feminism
 * Transgender
 * why gender/gender construction
 * List of transgender-related topics

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