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M.A. MA Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory
University of Leeds
| Start date: | September 2013 |
| Duration full-time: | 12 months |
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| Delivery mode: | On Campus |
| Educational variant: | Part-time, Full-time |
Description
The course examines the relationship between genders and sexualities, and explores the histories of sexualities, their medicalisations and political struggles. You will investigate whether queer theory can sufficiently account for power differentials between men and women in their sexual relationships.
You will consider what transsexuality, transgenderism and intersexuality, as well as anthropological studies of 'third genders', can say about the norms of sexuality we are encouraged to accept.
This course aims to critically interrogate the ways in which we come to think about sexualities as natural and rooted in biological sex and socially constructed genders.
Contents
MA Gender Studies is available on a 12-month full-time or 24-month part-time basis. The course has five modules: four compulsory, one elective.
Compulsory modules
Researching Gender provides you with the opportunity to focus on researching gender with a particular emphasis on feminist research practices. In exploring a range of disciplinary perspectives, you will focus on epistemological, methodological and ethical considerations. In particular, the course looks at these considerations with relation to research design and methods.
The module also encourages you to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop an understanding of the possibilities of interdisciplinary research. You will critically analyse research practice from a gender and feminist perspective, review and appraise research findings, and synthesise information and knowledge from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary sources and perspectives.
Theorising Gender engages with contemporary theoretical approaches within gender studies. Exploring the social and individual processes involved in the enactment of gender relations, the module investigates alternative, complementary and conflicting explanations for the source and operation of gender.
Investigating the historical, social and individual significance of gender, you will examine various areas of social life where gender shapes interactions and forms meaning: in particular, you will consider family roles, reproductive technologies, citizenship, sexuality, culture and personal biography.
Que(e)ring Sexualities examines gender and sexuality as effects of historically specific socio-cultural and geo-political power relations. You will investigate the key theoretical concepts in the study of gender, sexuality and queer theory, and use interdisciplinary approaches to challenge normalisations, hierarchies and relations of domination.
You will also explore the powerful processes and languages that fix gender and sexuality as 'natural', and examines how these powerful ideas come to affect the lives intimacies and politics of queer subjects.
Dissertation allows you to tailor your own programme of training and research in consultation with a member of staff drawn from the centre's MA/PhD supervisory panel.
Through the dissertation, you demonstrate your ability to develop and complete an in-depth analysis, select and use appropriate research methods, deploy advanced theoretical concepts and relate a focused study to broader debates and concerns.
Elective modules
In addition to the compulsory modules, you also choose a module from the following list.
* Post-colonial Representations
* Global Genders
* Gender, Race & Culture
* Contested Bodies
* Gender, Communications and Popular Culture
* Gender and Sexuality in World Cinema
* Issues in Contemporary Musicology
* Race, Gender and Migration
* Identity, Ethnicity and 'Race' in the Luso-Hispano World
* The Regulation of Sexuality in Spain and Latin America
* Contemporary Issues in Religion and Gender
Requirements
If you wish to apply for these programmes, you should normally hold a good honours degree (upper second class or first class), or an equivalent professional qualification. Relevant experience will be taken into account where appropriate.
Postgraduate diploma routes are available for candidates that do not wish to take the full MA programme. It is also possible to consider candidates for the Diploma who are not appropriately qualified for immediate MA study. Such candidates may be considered for subsequent transfer to an MA programme, depending on performance.
English Language Requirements
| CAE score: | 60(Grade A) |
Funding
Tuition fees and/or maintenance may be paid in part, or in full, by an awarding body, a bursary or other postgraduate grant.
For students applying to the Centre for Gender Studies, the most likely sources of funding will be the following bodies.
* Economic and Social Research Council studentships - for home and EU students
* Arts and Humanities Research Council - for home and EU students
* University scholarships - for all students
* Opportunities for self-funding
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