Gender and sexuality studies is a collective term for the interdisciplinary study of human gender and sexuality. It includes such fields as womens 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 Games
- gay pride
- gay rights
- gay rights movement
- gender-blind
- 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
- nullification
- Camile Paglia
- paraphilia
- pornography
- James W. Prescott
- prostitution
- queer studies, queer theory, queer (also Queer)
- Queer community
- Queer culture
- Re Kevin - validity of marriage of transsexual
- religion and homosexuality,
- sex, sexual behaviors, sexuality
- sex in science fiction
- skoptic syndrome
- Gloria Steinem
- Stonewall riots
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
- Third-World Feminism
- transgender
- transsexual