FGSS engages in critical analyses of the construction of gender and sexuality as categories of analysis and experience within the broad matrices of race, class, and ethnicity, and the ways in which these categories inform knowledge production. Scholars study historical and contemporary explorations of women, gender, and sexuality from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on Africa, the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and South Asia, as well as the U.S.
Scholars produce and read:
Scholars seek primary sources like newspaper reviews and opinion pieces, diaries and blogs, correspondence and social media, in order to understand the lived experience of people in a particular time, place, or situation.
The library has digitized the Coeducation Collection which documents the first period of coeducation at Wesleyan University, lasting from 1872 to 1909. The collection includes notes, letters, records, clippings, photographs, and meeting transcripts. A finding aid for the collection is available from Special Collections & Archives.
