Gender, Sexuality and Culture MA/PGDip

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time | 24 Months Part-Time

About the course

Our innovative and highly interdisciplinary MA Gender, Sexuality and Culture is designed specifically for students interested in investigating gender and sexuality within culture.

Our approach is unique within the UK, bringing together scholars who offer options in a range of academic disciplines, including English and American studies, art history and visual cultures, politics, history, modern languages, religions and theology, history of medicine, sociology, social anthropology, as well as others.

In close consultation with the course directors, you'll opt for a range of MA units drawn from offerings across the humanities and social sciences. You will also be able to take up training in research methods. This approach allows you greater flexibility and the opportunity to pursue research in new areas.

Join the UK's first dedicated research facility focusing exclusively on the relationships between sexuality, culture and history

Discover new approaches to gender studies and sexuality studies as theoretical, social, cultural, political and historical fields of investigation.

Challenge current understandings of gender and sexuality by interrogating cultural identities, such as queer, heterosexual, homosexual, gay, straight, bisexual and transgender.

Course Units

This course consists of taught units and a dissertation. Taught units cover topics including:

Modernism and its Margins
Queer Cinema and Beyond
Before ‘Sexuality’: Bodies, Desires and Discourses, 1660-1900
Religion and Gender Theory
Sociology of Consumption
Protest and Progress: Understanding Movements for Social and Political Change
Contemporary Fiction
Trans Theory
The AIDS Crisis: American Cultural Representation

These are example course units based on 2024/25 options and are subject to change each year.

Anne Engels

MA Gender, Sexuality and Culture

"The MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture is unique in the UK, and Manchester offers a great variety of study resources. Furthermore, the city's cultural offering compliments my course extremely well."