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SEMESTER: V CREDIT: 1

22UGENS57: GENDER STUDIES


PART: IV HOURS: 2

Course Objectives
This paper will examine gender as a category of social analysis and gender bias in contemporary
society. It assesses various patriarchal ideologies, practices, normative structures which will enable
students to understand how the state, media and market reproduce these hierarchies.

I. Conceptualizing Gender
• Constructing Sex and Gender
• Patriarchy
• Sexual Division of Labour
• Construction of Sexuality
• Masculinity and Feminity

II. Gender and Family in India


• Family as a gendered institution
• Family as a site of violence
• Women as honour and shame of caste, religion, clan

III. Women’s movement in India


• Women and National Movements
• Campaigns by women’s movement around 1960s and 70s – Anti – Price, Anti- Dowry
• Caste, gender and class intersections
• Patriarchal state and rights of women

IV. Act and Safeguarding Mechanism


• In India National / State Commission for Women (NCW)
• All Women Police Station
• Domestic Violence Act
• Prevention of Sexual Harassment – State Policy
• Maternity Benefit Act – PNDT Act – Hindu Succession Act 2005 – Eve Teasing
Prevention Act
• Self Help Groups – 73rd and 74th Amendment for PRIS

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V. Areas of Gender Discrimination and Women Empowerment
• Family – Sex Ratio – Literacy – Health – Governance
• Work Vs Employment – Market – Media – Politics – Law and Domestic Violence
• Empowerment of Women – National Policy
• Mainstreaming Global Policies

Text Books
• Bhasin Kamala (2000): Understanding gender, kali for women, N. Delhi.
• Basu Aparna (1999) Women’s Education in India in Ray and Basu (edt): From
• Independence Towards Freedom, OUP, New Delhi.
• Chodhuri Maitreyee (2004): Feminism in India, Women Unlimited, New Delhi.
• Chakravarty Uma (2003), Gendering caste through a feminist Lense, Stree, Calcutta.
• Courting Disaster, PUDR report.
• Davis Kathy, Evans Mary, Lorber, J (edt) (2006): Handbook of Gender and Women’s
studies, Sage, UK.
• Delamont Sara: Feminist Sociology: Feminist Concepts, Contribution to women’s studies
series, Part-I, II, III, RCWS, Mumbai.
• Foucault, Michel. “17 March 1976.” Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the
Collegede France 1975-1976. Trans. David Macey. New York: Picador, 1976.
• Freedman Jane: Feminism, Viva Books, New Delhi, 2002.
• Geetha V.: Patriarchy, Stree, Calcutta, 2007.
• Geetha V.: Gender, Stree, Calcutta, 2002.
• Ghadially Rehana (Edt): Urban Women in Contemporary India, Sage Publications, 2007.
• Holloway, Karla FC. “Blood child” Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender and
a Cultural Bioethics. Durham: Duke University Press,
• IGNOU: Kits on Women in Indian Contexts, Delhi
• Kaplan Karen, An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World.
2nd ed. Eds. Inderpal Grewal and New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.
• Karat Brinda: Survival and Emancipation, Three essays Collective, 2005.
• Khullar Mala(edt.): Writing the Women’s Movement- A Reader, Zubaan, New
Delhi, 2005.
• Kimmel Michael: The Gendered Society, Oxford, NY, 2008.
• Radha Kumar: History of Doing, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1992.
• Rege Sharmila: Sociology of gender, Sage, New Delhi, 2003
• Mishra. O.P, Law Relating to Women & Child, Allahabad: Central Law Agency, 2001
• Bhattacharya Malini, Sexual Violence and Law, Kolkata; West Bengala Commission for
Women, 2002
• Sexual Harassment at the Workplace – A Guide, New Delhi; Sakshi,1999
• Women’s Integrated National Development Trust

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