Gender Studies (Research) | Doctorate / PhD | Humanities & Culture | On Campus | 3 years | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom

Academics and postgraduate students across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are active in a wide range of research areas related to gender studies including: Gender and power; Gender and trauma; Gender, feminism and ‘post-feminism’; Queer theory; Men and masculinity studies; Feminist media studies; Gender and generations; Humanities and human rights. Across these areas we explore in our research and teaching how gender plays a part in cultures of inequality; how girls position themselves and are positioned by a media culture for which they are simultaneously a sign of anxiety and optimism; how women’s historical struggles around suffrage frame contemporary experience; how austerity and recession culture have reinstated gender hierarchies; how women’s fiction opens up and challenges cultural assumptions; how hierarchies of gender and race are complexly intertwined; how women’s intellectual contributions can be understood as central to a history of ideas; how analysing men and masculinity is a vital component of gender studies; and how queer and transgender activism has transformed the field of gender and cultural theory.