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Established at Cornell University in 1972, FGSS seeks to address some of the most important issues the world faces today, for example migration and human rights, particularly from the perspective of the most vulnerable populations, by offering students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBTQIA critical analysis, in global and local contexts and with the purpose of promoting social justice.
The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program remains committed to promoting the study of feminism, but also to advocating for the fair and equal treatment of women on campus, across the country, and around the world. For faculty and students alike, our goal is to be a gathering place for all those interested in and concerned with questions of gender and sexuality. Your donation helps make this possible in many ways; providing support to student research, guest speakers, faculty and student gatherings, and much, much, more. Many of you have fond memories of your time with fellow FGSS students and professors. Please consider a pledge or donation to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
1) Online. Click here to make a gift via the online secure gift form.
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3) By mail. Send a check made payable to Cornell University and mailed to: Cornell University, PO Box 25842, Lehigh Valley, PA 18003-9692. Please be sure to note on your check: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gift Fund # 475427
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15: “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century.”
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Looking closely at the archaic genealogy of gods and humans in Hesiod, and Approaching questions of genos through (post)structuralist conceptions of kinship, we will see how patriarchal kinship strives to determine the truth of genealogy and inheritance, while women’s relationship to truth is relent...
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Drawing on resources as disparate as abolition democracy, prison abolition, reproductive justice, Marxism, and transfeminism, gender abolitionists often grapple with (and are called to grapple with) competing conceptualizations of abolition—how it works, what it looks like, and by what means it is a...
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Eve Iulo is a third-year student at Cornell University, pursuing an interdisciplinary major in Feminist Media Studies and Technologies with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. See Eve's article, "Policing Pleasure: Prevailing Feminist Tensions with Neoliberal Governance and Power as...
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"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.
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"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
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Lette Bragg, visiting assistant professor of English at Swarthmore College, received her Ph.D. in the Department of Literatures in English, with a concentration in FGSS, in 2018.
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This course will introduce students to the LGBTQAI+ umbrella experience through interactions with community partners and scholars specializing in issues of power, desire, sex, gender, race, and sexuality.
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