MSc Gender

The MSc in Gender at LSE encourages an analytical approach to the subject, and explores gender from a number of perspectives across various disciplinary boundaries.

A key focus of the programme concerns the ethical and intellectual issues that arise from practicing gender studies. In addition to the compulsory courses, you’ll be able to choose from a range of options within and outside of the department.

At LSE, our experienced faculty will encourage you to develop your own gender studies pathway and to focus on research areas that interest you.

Graduates of the MSc in Gender go on to pursue various career paths, including research and consultancy for government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in countries across the globe. Some students go on to pursue humanitarian and charity work, whereas others work in civil and diplomatic services, representative politics, advocacy, and academia.

• J Butler Gender Trouble (Routledge, 1999)
• S de Beauvoir The Second Sex (Vintage, 1997)
• M Evans and C H Williams Gender: the key concepts (Routledge, 2012)
• M Evans C Hemmings H Marsha, H Johnstone, S Madhok, A Plomien, and S Wearing The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory (Sage Publications, 2014)
• I Grewal and C Kaplan Scattered Hegemonies: postmodernity and transnational feminist practices (Minneapolis Press, 1994)
• T Laqueur Making Sex (Harvard University Press 1990)
• M Nussbaum Sex and Social Justice (Oxford University Press 1999)
• S M Okin Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (Princeton University Press 1999)
• C Pateman The Sexual Contract (Polity Press 1988)
• R Wiegman Women Studies on Its Own (Duke University Press 2002)