MA Gender Studies

University of Lincoln

The MA Gender Studies offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary space for critically engaging with the complex workings and effects of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary society. Gender profoundly influences the way we experience the world, shaping our individual sense of self, and structuring our role in the family, relationships, the workplace, and the wider political and social spheres. However, gender is often misunderstood, unexamined and/or taken for granted. This MA degree is inspired by a curiosity about gender and a need to draw attention to, and question, its sometimes invisible operation in local and global contexts. What difference does gender make and how gender might be imagined in ways that could facilitate resistance and change? Students will be encouraged to critically examine their own assumptions, and, most importantly, to question popular and common-sense notions of gender. This programme is cross-disciplinary, with specialist modules drawing on the considerable research and teaching expertise in gender studies across the School of Social and Political Sciences and the university. The Master's is therefore of interest to people with a wide variety of academic backgrounds from the humanities, social sciences and beyond, as well as from diverse professional backgrounds.