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Women's Studies at the University of Limerick

Women's Studies provides a focus for teaching and research on questions of gender and women's lives. In these pages you will find information about the postgraduate, undergraduate and evening programmes in Women's Studies on offer at UL.

You will also find information about staff contributing to our programmes and a range of resources relevant to Women's Studies and feminist research.


Books by Women's Studies Staff

 

 

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO QUEER THEORY (Ashgate 2009), eds. Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke

 

QUEERING THE NON/HUMAN (Ashgate 2008), eds. Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird

 

COSMOPOLITAN IRELAND: GLOBALISATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE (Pluto Press, 2007) by Carmen Kuhling and Kieran Keohane


 

 

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LESBIAN STUDIES (Taylor and Francis 2007), eds. Noreen Giffney and Katherine O’Donnell

 

MADE HOLY: IRISH WOMEN RELIGIOUS AT HOME AND ABROAD (Irish Academic Press, 2006) by Yvonne McKenna

 

COLLISION CULTURE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN IRELAND (Liffey Press, 2004) by Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling


 

 

THE NEW AGE ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF POSTMODERNITY (Hampton Press, 2004) by Carmen Kuhling

 

WOMEN AND THE IRISH DIASPORA (Routledge, 2004) by Breda Gray

 

WOMEN AND PAID WORK, 1500 TO 1939 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001), edited by Bernadette Whelan

To see more books by
Women's Studies staff, click here.


Women's Studies is closely linked to the
 Department of Sociology
and is part of the
 University of Limerick College of Humanities

 

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May 2009

NEW MA IN GENDER, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Women’s Studies at UL is offering a new MA programme in Gender, Culture and Society from September 2009. This programme has been designed specifically to cater for students interested in the interdisciplinary study of gender in culture and society. Students can opt for modules offered by several departments in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and may choose to specialise in historical, socio-political or literary / cultural approaches to gender.
NEW SEMINAR SERIES IN GENDER, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Women’s Studies at UL has inaugurated a new cutting-edge series of seminars to support the launch of their interdisciplinary MA in Gender, Culture and Society in September 2009. The list of guest speakers includes some of the world’s leading experts in the area, including Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), Dr Susie Orbach (Psychoanalyst and Writer, London) and Professor Linda Williams (University of Berkeley, California). For more details, click here.

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