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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.
2) By phone. Use your credit card to make a gift by phone. Call 800-279-3099 and make sure to designate your gift to the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gift Fund #475427
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
Read the article written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize runner up: "Gender Abolition: A Beauvoirian Argument for Discursive and Social Gender Expansion" by Anya Sudershan Khanna.
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Read the article written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize winner: "Cradle Contoversies: Examining Italy's Surrogacy Ban via Feminist Theory" by Nic Oke
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Read the article written by the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize winner: "Navigating Queerness and Education" by Emileen Flores.
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FGSS & LGBT Studies commencement information.
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On April 25, seven Society for the Humanities’ Fellows will present their projects in progress during the annual Spring Fellows’ conference, highlighting the various ways that the theme of silence has been explored –
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Jingya Guo, FGSS Graduate Assistant, is a doctoral candidate in history from Hangzhou, China. She earned her B.A. from Zhejiang Normal University and M.A. in history and museum studies from Tufts University and now studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between path...
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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 relentl...
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