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