Gender and Sexuality Studies (GNSX), formerly Women's and Gender Studies, is a multidisciplinary field that provides an integrated approach to understanding the social and cultural constructions of gender that shape our diverse experiences. With its roots in social justice movements of the last three decades, the methods and goals of Gender and Sexuality Studies support the University’s mission of education informed by both ethical and intellectual values. In addition to educating undergraduates in traditional classroom environments, the program provides opportunities for civic engagement through internships, support for faculty scholarship on gender issues across the disciplines, and diverse co-curricular programming for the university.
Submissions from 2015
Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance Between Fact and Fiction, Linda Garber
Deconstructing Sita's Blues: Questions of Mis/representation, Cultural Property, and Feminist Critique in Nina Paley's Ramayana, Sharmila Lodhia
Submissions from 2014
Disability, Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan
Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!’ Cyberdiscourses, Patriarchal Anxieties and the Male Backlash Movement in India, Sharmila Lodhia
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication, Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson
Submissions from 2012
Beyond the research/service dichotomy: Claiming ALL research products for hiring, evaluation, tenure, and promotion., Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan
Submissions from 2011
The Poetics of Professionalism Among Dialysis Technicians, Laura L. Ellingson
Gender, Genre and Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Elrod
Performing Mythic Identity:An Analysis and Critiqueof “The Ethnogs”, Nick Trujillo, Bob Krizek, Patty Sotirin, Laura L. Ellingson, Melanie Bailey Mills, Shirley Drew, and Chris Poulos
Submissions from 2010
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, and Molly Talcott
A Feminist Forecast for Health Communication Research in 2010., Laura L. Ellingson
Phillis Wheatley’s Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Brides without Borders: New Topographies of Violence and the Future of Law in an Era of Transnational Citizen-Subjects, Sharmila Lodhia
Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National ‘Security’ and Violence Against South Asian Women, Sharmila Lodhia
Submissions from 2009
Limping (enthusiastically) toward Chicago, Laura L. Ellingson
Salvaging, Surrendering, and Saying Goodbye to My Leg, Laura L. Ellingson
All-India Women's Conference, Sharmila Lodhia
Dowry Prohibition Act, Sharmila Lodhia
Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the "Family in Crisis", Sharmila Lodhia
Submissions from 2008
Embodied knowledge, Laura L. Ellingson
Autoethnography as Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson and Carolyn Ellis
Academic Aunting: Reimaging Feminist (Wo)Mentoring, Teaching, and Relationships., Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia Sotirin
Submissions from 2007
The Performance of Dialysis Care: Routinization and Adaptation on the Floor, Laura L. Ellingson
A Film Review: The Shape of Water by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Sharmila Lodhia
Rearticulating the Aunt: Feminist Alternatives of Family, Care, and Kinship in Popular Performances of Aunting, Patricia Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson
Submissions from 2006
Embodied Knowledge: Writing Researchers’ Bodies Into Qualitative Health Research, Laura L. Ellingson
Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts, Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin
Submissions from 2005
Where in the World Are the Lesbians?, Linda Garber
Submissions from 2003
Interdisciplinary Health Care Teamwork in the Clinic Backstage, Laura L. Ellingson
One Step Global, Two Steps Back? Race, Gender, and Queer Studies, Linda Garber
Submissions from 2002
Communication, collaboration, and teamwork among health care professionals, Laura L. Ellingson
The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions, Laura L. Ellingson
Weaving a Wide Net: An Integrated Model for Combating Campus Homophobia and Heterosexism, Linda Garber
Demanding the Right to Live without Violence: Reflections on Color of Violence II, Sharmila Lodhia and Sylvanna Falcón
Submissions from 2000
Style, Substance, and Standpoint: A Feminist Critique of Bernie Siegel’s Rhetoric of Self-Healing, Laura L. Ellingson
Submissions from 1999
Listening to Women's Narratives of Breast Cancer Treatment: A Feminist Approach to Patient Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication, Laura L. Ellingson and Patrice M. Buzzanell
Harriet Wilson and the White Reader: Authority and Audience in Our Nig, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Submissions from 1998
Then You Know How I Feel”: Empathy, Identification, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork, Laura L. Ellingson
Submissions from 1997
Rebellion, Restraint, and New England Religion: The Ambivalent Feminism of Mary Wilkins Freeman, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Submissions from 1996
Truth is Stranger than Non-Fiction: Gender, Religion, and Contradiction in the Works of Rose Terry Cooke, Eileen Razzari Elrod
Submissions from 1995
‘Exactly Like MyFather’: Feminist Hermeneutics inHarriet Beecher Stowe’s Non-Fiction, Eileen Razzari Elrod
