MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

at University of Oxford

 The following list is indicative of the types of topics which may be offered:
 

• Feminist Perspectives on the Body

• Women’s Intellectual History from 1850 to the present

• Postcolonial Perspectives: Race and Gender in Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal

• Fiction in English, 1789 to the Present: Gender and Race

• 20th and 21st Century Theatre

• Feminism and/or Queer Theory

• Feminism and Silence

• Gender and Development

• Feminist and Queer Theologies

• Early “Feminisms”

• Women and Classics

• The Philosophy and Feminism of Simone de Beauvoir

• Writing Women in the Middle Ages

• Gendered Bodies in Visual Art and Culture

• Crossing fiction and theory: African women writers and African feminism in conversation

• Black Women in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1600-1850 

• Philosophy of birth – When the uterus enters the door, reason goes out the window

• ‘Friendship as a Way of life’: kinship and the nature of queerness

• The Sound of Black Feminist Thought

• Nahda: Literature, modernity and institution-building in the Arabic 19th Century

• Transgender Theory and Writing

• Writing Illness in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Degree-level qualifications
 

As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the following UK qualifications or their equivalent:
 

• a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in any subject.
   

• Whilst there is no restriction on the subject of the first degree, applicants should be able to demonstrate a clear and well-reasoned commitment to women's, gender, and sexuality studies.
• Entrance is very competitive and most successful applicants have a first-class degree or the equivalent.
• For applicants with a degree from the USA, the minimum GPA sought is 3.75 out of 4.0.
   

If your degree is not from the UK or another country specified above, visit our International Qualifications page for guidance on the qualifications and grades that would usually be considered to meet the University’s minimum entry requirements.
 

GRE General Test scores

• No Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or GMAT scores are sought.
• Other qualifications, evidence of excellence and relevant experience
• Publications are not expected.
   

Further guidance
 

For progression from the taught MSt to a research degree, the five participating faculties (Classics, English Language and Literature, History, Medieval and Modern Languages and Philosophy) accept the MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as equivalent to their respective MSt degrees, though there is no automatic right to acceptance and some faculties demand a distinction in the MSt dissertation. In the case of the Faculty of Philosophy, applications by students who have completed the MSt will be considered for both the BPhil and the DPhil programmes on a case-by-case basis. It is the responsibility of students applying to other faculties within Oxford to clarify any conditions for progression which these faculties may impose.

Home  
£16,010

Overseas    
£30,910

Many of the students who complete this course proceed to doctoral degrees at Oxford and at other universities. Other graduate destinations include teaching, journalism, NGO work, and the civil service.