M.A. Program

Master’s Program in Women and Gender Studies (MWGS)

The Master’s Program in Women and Gender Studies (MWGS) fosters the critical analysis of material, ideological and cultural practices and processes that have shaped sex and gender and that continue to structure women’s and men’s lives transhitorically, cross-culturally, and intersectionally – always with an eye to transformation and change of inequitable practices. Women and Gender Studies requires and interdisciplinary engagement with a range of theories and methodologies in order to examine sex and gender as intersectionally produced and entangled with questions of race, citizenship, sexuality, embodiment, colonialism, class and so on. Students thus have the opportunity to undertake feminist studies in a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences. The M.A. degree focuses on transnationality, gender and sex. The graduate offerings explore the temporal and geographic cartographies through which women’s and men’s lives, sexed relations, gendered subjectivities, and sexualities are situated. Our offerings in feminist inquiry challenge and illuminate colonial, postcolonial and transnational contexts. Central themes of the program include global capitalism, nation and state formation, empire, citizenship, diaspora and cultural flows, all of which are examined through the lenses of diverse feminist scholarship.