MA Women's Studies

Summary

The MA Women's Studies focuses on women’s lives, in contemporary society, historically and globally. It attracts people from a range backgrounds and recent experiences - work, community, family - who can demonstrate the ability to study at postgraduate level.

Women’s Studies challenges long held masculine traditions, leading towards a broader culture of diversity and inclusivity. This wider transformative effect of Women’s Studies demonstrates achievement of one of its own central principles – praxis, whereby not only are the students’ intellectual, creative and critical abilities developed and personal empowerment achieved, but that these abilities are also used to advance the material and political concerns of the students and women more generally.