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MA in Gender and Culture 2012  

This is an interdisciplinary MA scheme, co-ordinated from English and taught by Gender specialists across the School of Arts and Humanities (Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, English, European Languages, History, Media Studies, Sociology and Anthropology).

Compulsory Modules

• Gender and Culture: An Introduction

• EITHER: Study and Research Skills in the Humanities OR: Historical Methods and Approaches OR: Research and Study Skills (Social Research)

Optional Modules (choose 4)

• The Sexual and Textual Politics of the New Woman

• British Women’s Fiction 1918-1939

• The Female Malady: Women Writing Madness

• Women Writers of the 1940s

• Women Writing India

• Gender Trouble, the Medieval Anchorite, and Issues of Wombs and Tombs

• ‘The Great Pretender’: Masculinity in Contemporary Women’s Fiction

• ‘The Unsex’d Females’: Women Writers and the French Revolution

• Contemporary Women’s Writing

• Gendered Approaches to Myth and Fairytale

• Contemporary German Women’s Writing

• Gender in Contemporary European Culture

• Literature in Social Context

• Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt

• Cultural Awareness: Policy, Practice, Analysis

• Cultural Difference and Change in British Society

• Cultural Systems Around the World

• Cultural Difference: Reflexive Practice

• Qualitative Research Methods

• Quantitative Research Methods

Optional modules are also available from across the English MA schemes and from schemes offered by other contributing departments.

Students write a dissertation in or across any of the subject disciplines contributing to the scheme.