Open Books
- Gender and Sexualities: An Inquiry
“Gender and Sexualities: An Inquiry provides an interdisciplinary and intersectional framework for thinking critically about the historical and contemporary applications of knowledge about gender and sexuality.” - Gender & Sexuality: A Transnational Anthology from 1690 to 1990
Created by students of Dr. Mir Yarfitz at Wake Forest University, this book “is the cumulative product of a semester of research where students selected a specific primary source and situated that source within its historical context.” - Gendered Lives: Global Issues
“Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North.” - Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today, extended version
“This extended version of Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today includes, for each chapter, a summary, key words, multiple choice questions, discussion questions, essay questions, and a list of additional resources. Copies of the original book are also available in Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish.” - Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
“This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field.” - LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook
“This textbook is designed to provide an introduction to and an overview of LGBTQ+ Studies for the introductory level college student and the curious public. […] This textbook is designed to be free for everyone to use; it is community-oriented, and a cultural production grounded in the struggle to challenge stereotypes, silences, and untruths that have long been circulated about lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans* folk, queer and non-binary peoples, our histories, and our cultures. It’s a kind of DIY LGBTQ project for the 21st century.” - Open access books on gender studies at DOAB
Find open access books on gender studies related to various topics, some more technical than others, at DOAB. - Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
“Persistence is Resistance is a collection celebrating 50 years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. Contributors are a diverse group of scholars, from undergraduate students to faculty emeritus, representing twenty-four institutions. Essays cover GWSS’s history, praxis, and implementation. The book also includes artwork by GWSS undergraduates and alumni, and their answers to ‘why GWSS?’ Persistence is Resistance is ideal for the classroom because the essays are short, jargon light, and inspire feminist inquiry, activism, and pride.”
Open Courses and Hubs
- Equality Archive
“Equality Archive is a reliable source for the history of sex and gender equality in the United States. It is a theater for history and social justice with the goal to provide a forum for curious people.” All original content is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. - Gender and Women’s Studies Courses (MIT OpenCourseWare)
- Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies 101
This course site is one of four offered by Jimena Alvarado Chavarría of Portland Community College at her site Everyday Social Justice. She writes: “This course is an introduction to intersectionality and social justice. I’m starting from a beginner perspective assuming that folks are coming into these ideas for the first time.
Zero-cost Resources
- World History Commons
This site provides digitized and annotated primary sources along with teaching guides on topics in world history and on working with particular types of primary sources. Guides that may be of interest include the following:
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