INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (WGSS)

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY (COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES), GA, USA

1994

[Named Institute in 2004]

Management and team. Structure

  • Director
  • Professors
  • Staff, Department specialists

Objectives

  • To contribute to the university’s broader mission of encouraging critical thinking through a focus on feminist and womanist interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching and community participation.
  • To analyze the ways public discourse relies on gender and sexuality to conceptualize such issues as war and militarism, policy, the environment, education, healthcare, economics, the media and popular culture.
  • To explore these issues, to emphasize the following: race, globalization, sexuality and social change.
  • To promote transformative thinking and activism toward ending oppression and working for freedom and justice.

Research and results

[Publications by professors and researchers from the Institute]:

Stephanie Evans:

  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2007.
  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Colette Taylor, Michelle Dunlap, and DeMond Miller (Eds.). African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE). New York, SUNY Press¸ 2009.
  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment, New York, SUNY Press, 2014.
  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Kanika Bell, and Nsenga Burton, Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability, SUNY Press, 2017.
  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Andrea D. Domingue, and Tania D. Mitchell, Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons, SUNY Press, 2019.
  • Evans, Stephanie Y., Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, SUNY Press, 2021.

Susan Talburt:

  • Talburt, Susan, Shirley R. Steinberg (Ed.), Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education, Peter Lang, 2000.
  • Talburt, Susan, Rasmussen, Mary Lou and Rofes, Eric (Ed.), Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination in and out of Schools, Palgrave, 2004. Lesko, Nancy and Talburt, Susan (Eds.), Keywords in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges, New York and London, Routledge, 2012.
  • Talburt, Susan (Ed.), Youth Sexualities: Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics (2 volumes), Praeger, 2018.

Megan Sinnott:

  • Sinnnott, Megan, Toms and Dees: Female Same Sex Sexuality and Transgender Identity in Thailand, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Jennie Burnet:

  • Burnet, Jennie E, Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

[More information about Thesis Projects in the website]

Ongoing projects

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