Women's Studies
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry offering feminist perspectives on gender, sexuality and culture. It also operates from the premise that questions gender relations, power, sexual subjectivities, and embodiment are important and should be incorporated into our processes of knowledge formation. In this way, women's studies attempts to correct the absence of material on women and gender relations, which for a long time characterised more traditional areas of study. Women's studies also emphasises the diversity of women's experience. Beyond general considerations of the changing status of women and where dominant ideas and assumptions about gender and sexual difference come from, women's studies also covers specific issues such as how different cultures shape gender identities and sexualities, shifting cultural and historical modes of feminity and masculinity, how questions of sex or gender relate to questions of class and race, how women are represented in film, literature and the media, the relationship between gender and technology, and the role of women and gender in important political, economic, sociological and philosophical debates.
Contact: School of Political and Social Inquiry
How to apply
Information about each course can be found through the links below to Course Finder. From Course Finder, you can also go to the University Handbook, where unit information (where appropriate) relating to each course can be found.
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Program of Study |
Course Code |
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3770 |
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| Graduate Certificate in Feminist Research Methods | 3760 |
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3937 |
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2846 |
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2695 |
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0020 |