[5] Harry L. Wilson wrote that Disarmed made a contribution to each of two separate fields: both the theory of social movements and the topic of gun control.

[4] Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens cited Disarmed in a dissenting opinion on a case related to gun control.

[6] Goss was also the sole author of the 2013 book The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice, which was published in a second edition in 2020.

Instead, Goss shows that, after suffrage, women's groups became increasingly active and powerful on topics such as health care and foreign affairs, declining after a series of victories in the 1960s and 1970s.

Goss's work has been cited in news outlets including NPR,[9] PolitiFact,[10] The Guardian,[11] and The Christian Science Monitor,[12] and she has published articles on gun control in The Washington Post[13] and CNN.