MA in Women, Gender and Literature

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• Academic title
  MA in Women, Gender and Literature
• Course description
  Introduction
   
  Founded in the 1980s, this MA was the first of its kind at a British University, offering a literature-based approach to women's studies. It has been recently redesigned in response to changing trends in the fields of gender studies and women's writing, to give students both a sound training in research methods and the opportunity to study texts from a variety of different literary genres across different historical periods from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century and beyond. The normal entry requirement is a good BA degree in English or a related subject.
  
  This programme will appeal to students interested in gender issues in nineteenth-century and contemporary literature but also draws on the work of historical feminist figures with a close connection to Hull, such as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), the author of the first British feminist manifesto, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), who lived in Beverley between the ages of 9 and 15, and the early twentieth-century feminist writer Winifred Holtby (1898-1935), who immortalised Hull ('Kingsport') and her Yorkshire neighbourhood in her masterpiece South Riding (1936)
  
  Programme structure
   
  -Research Skills, Methods, Methodologies I (New outline)  14731  Research Skills, Methods, Methodologies II (new outline) 
  -* Feminism, Politics, and Power
  -*Gendered Bodies, Gendered Selves
  -* Students choose one of these two gender theory modules as their third core module.   
   
  Options Options
  -Family Matters
  -Hystorical Fictions: Gender and Sexuality in the neo-Victorian Novel (new outline) 
  -Race, Ethnicity and Gender (new outline)
  -Gender and Monstrosity (new outline) 
  -Literature and History
  -Women, Writing, Travel (new outline)
  -Sex and Gender    
  -Renaissance Women
  -Women and Writing in the Middle Ages
  -Gender in Popular Culture 
  -Rights and Wrongs: Writings on Nineteenth-Century Ethical, Moral and Political Issues 
       
  Electives   Electives  
   
  -Feminist Historiography and
  -Women's Movements Worldwide (10 credit modules to be taken conjointly)
  -Art, Photography and the Visual (MA in Nineteenth-Century Studies) 
  New
  -Domestic Violence/Colonial Violence (new outline)
  -Sensation Writing (MA in Nineteenth-Century Studies module)
  -Other(ed) Bodies: Anthropological Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity 
  -Political Theory of Multiculturalism
  -New  Theatre in the Modern World (new outline) 
  -Movement and Identity 1800 - 2000 
  
  Programme outline
  
  Duration: 1 year full time or 2 years part time

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