Yale University's libraries and art and manuscript collections offer rich resources for research in all fields. Holdings of potential interest to students in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies include the papers of nineteenth and twentieth-century writers such as George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott and Edmund White; of artists Georgia O'Keefe and Marsden Hartley; and of political activists Emma Goldman and Rose Pastor Stokes.

Students can also draw upon the resources of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Studies and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (FLAGS), which sponsor visiting scholars, lecture series, and student research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies.

Awards and honors made available by the program to undergraduates include summer research money for majors embarking on the senior essay; the Elga Ruth Wasserman grant for an activist or academic summer project on a topic in feminist or gender studies; and the Steere Prize, awarded each spring to the senior essay that best exemplifies the advance in scholarship gained by focusing on women or gender and/or by employing feminist theory.

Graduate students may draw on faculty resources to develop a Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies focus while working toward degrees in their own departments. The program does not offer graduate degrees, but affiliated faculty give graduate courses in several departments. The program also employs graduate students as teaching fellows in the introductory courses.

To subscribe to the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program email list for notices of news, events, and speakers, write wgss@yale.edu.

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program also sponsors annual lectures.

A thorough history of the program, written in 2001 by Kirsten Lodal, is available by contacting Linda Hase.

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