M.A. Women Studies

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PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

(Established under the Panjab University Act VII of 1947-enacted by the Govt. of India)

FACULTY OF ARTS

SYLLABI

FOR

M.A. WOMEN’S STUDIES

(SEMESTER SYSTEM) EXAMINATIONS 2019-20, 2020-21

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GUIDELINES FOR CONTINUOUS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (20%) FOR REGULAR

STUDENTS OF POST-GRADUATE COURSES of M.A. in Women’s Studies (Semester System) (Effective from the First Year Admissions for the Academic Session 2005-2006)

1. The Syndicate has approved the following guidelines, mode of testing and evaluation including

Continuous Internal Assessment of students : (i) Terminal Evaluation : 80 %

(ii)

Continuous

Assessment : 20 % (iii) Continuous Assessment may include written assignment, snap tests, participation in

discussions in the class, term papers, attendance etc. (iv) In order to incorporate an element of Continuous Internal Assessment of students, the

Colleges/Departments will conduct one written test as quantified below :

(a) Written Test : 25 (reduced to 5) (b) Snap Test : 25 (reduced to 5) (c) Participation in Class Discussion : 15 (reduced to 3)

(d) Term Paper : 25 (reduced to 5) (e) Attendance : 10 (reduced to 2)

Total : 100 reduced to 20

2. Weightage of 2 marks for attendance component out of 20 marks for Continuous Assessment

shall be available only to those students who attend 75% and more of classroom lectures/seminars/workshops. The break–up of marks for attendance component for theory papers shall be as under :

Attendance Component Mark/s for Theory Papers

(a) 75 % and above upto 85 % : 1 (b) Above 85 % : 2

3. It shall not be compulsory to pass in Continuous Internal Assessment. Thus, whatever marks

are secured by a student out of 20% marks, will be carried forward and added to his/her score out of 20 %, i.e. the remaining marks allocated to the particular subject and, thus, he/she shall have to secure pass marks both in the University examinations as well as total of Internal Continuous Assessment and University examinations.

4. Continuous Internal Assessment awards from the affiliated Colleges/Departments must be sent

to the Controller of Examinations, by name, two weeks before the commencement of the particular examination on the Performa obtainable from the Examination Branch.

SPECIAL NOTE: (i) The theory paper will be of 80 marks and 20 marks will be for internal assessment.

(ii) In the case of Postgraduate Courses in the Faculties of Arts, Science, Languages, Education,

Design & Fine Arts, and Business Management & Commerce, falling under the purview of

Academic Council, where such a provision of Internal Assessment/Continuous Assessment already exists, the same will continue as before.

(iii) The marks obtained by a candidate in Continuous Internal Assessment in Postgraduate

Classes from the admissions of 2004 will be shown separately in the Detailed-Marks-Card

(D.M.C.)

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PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

OUTLINES OF TESTS, SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING FOR M.A IN

WOMEN’S STUDIES (SEMESTER SYSTEM) i.e. 1st & 3

rd SEMESTERS,

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 AND 2nd

& 4th

SEMESTERS APRIL / MAY, 2020

EXAMINATIONS.

Semester I Marks

Paper I - Conceptualising Women’s Studies 100

Paper II - Women’s Movements in India 100

Paper III - Feminist Theory 100

Paper IV - Basics of Social Research 100

Semester II

Compulsory Papers

Paper I - - Feminism: An Indian Perspective 100

Paper II - Emerging Trends in Feminist Research Methodology 100

Paper III - The United Nations and Women’s Issues 100

Paper IV - Optional Paper

(i) Field Project

OR 100

(ii) Women and Environment

Semester III

Compulsory Papers Paper I - Women and Law-I 100

Paper II - Women and Development 100

Paper III - Women and Human Rights 100

Paper IV - Optional Paper 100

(Candidate will be required to opt for one paper out of the following

courses offered)

Option (i) Women and Management

Option (ii) Women and Entrepreneurship

Option (iii) Training in Practical Skills

Option (iv) Women, Science and Technology

Semester IV

Compulsory Papers

Paper I - Women and Politics 100

Paper II - Women and Law- II 100

Papers III & IV - Optional Papers 100

(Candidate will be required to opt for two papers out of the following

courses offered)

(i) Women and Work

(ii) Women and Health

(iii) Women and Media

OR

Dissertation in lieu of two papers 200 marks

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Semester I

In Semester I, all the four papers are compulsory.

Compulsory Papers

Marks Paper I - Conceptualising Women’s Studies 100

Paper II - Women’s Movements in India 100

Paper III - Feminist Theory 100

Paper IV - Basics of Social Research 100

NOTE:

• In each of the Papers, the candidate will be assessed for 80 marks on the basis of a

written examination and for 20 marks on the basis of internal assessment.

• Rules and Regulations shall be the same as the Rules and Regulations of the

University for M.A Semester System.

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Paper I: Conceptualising Women’s Studies Time: 3 Hours

Objective: The objective of this course is to conscientise the students about some of the key

concepts in women’s studies, apart from their meaning from a feminist and gender perspective

with special reference to India.

Unit I Foundational Concepts:

- Sex and Gender

- Femininity and Masculinity

- Patriarchy

- Equality and difference

- Empowerment

Unit II Construction of Gender: Theories on Construction of Gender

- Biological/ Physiological

- Psychological

- Anthropological

- Sociological

Unit III Gender in the context of:

- Family

- Workplace

- Religion

- Language

Unit IV Women’s Studies:

- Definition

- Scope

- Women’s Studies in Higher Education (with reference to UGC Guidelines)

- Challenges to Women’s Studies (with special reference to India)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SETTERS AND THE CANDIDATES

(i) There will be 80 marks for the theory paper and 20 marks for internal assessment.

(ii) For improvement and reappear candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for

internal assessment, the marks secured by them in the theory paper will

proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu of internal

assessment.

The paper setter must put note (ii) in the question paper.

There shall be 9 questions in all, out of which the candidate shall attempt 5 questions.

First question shall be Short Answer type containing 15 short questions spread over the

whole syllabus to be answered in about 25 to 30 words. The candidate is required to

attempt any 10 short answer type questions of 2 marks each. It shall carry 20 marks

and shall be compulsory. Rest of the paper shall contain 4 units. Each Unit shall have

two questions and the candidate shall attempt one question from each Unit- 4 in all.

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Essential Readings:

Anderson, Margaret, Thinking About Women, Macmillan, New York, 1993.

Connel, R.W., Gender, Polity, Cambridge, 2002.

Gill, Rajesh, Contemporary Indian Urban Society- Ethnicity, Gender and Governance,

Bookwell Publishers, New Delhi, 2009.

Jain, Devaki and Rajput, Pam, (eds.), Narratives from the Women’s Studies Family, Sage,

New Delhi, 2003.

Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1986.

Lorber, Judith and Farell, Susan A. (ed.), The Social Construction of Gender, Sage, New

Delhi, 1991.

Mies, Maria, Indian Women and Patriarchy, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1980.

Mohanty, Manoranjan, (eds), Class, Caste, Gender, Sage, New Delhi, 2004.

Rajput, Pam and Kaur, Manvinder, “Women’s Studies in Higher Education in India: Some

Reflections”, Samyukta, Vol III, No.1, January 2003.

Smith, Bonie, G., Women Studies : the Basics, Routledge, T&F, London, 2015.

Tazi, Nadia (ed.), Keywords: Gender, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2004.

William, Carolyn H. Gender : The Key Concept Routledge, T&F Publisher, London, 2015

Further Readings:

Agarwal, Supriya, Gender, History & Culture, Rawat, Jaipur, 2009.

Batliwala, Srilatha, Women’s Empowerment in South Asia, FAO & ASPBAE, 1994.

Bhasin,K., Exploring Masculity, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2014.

Blumen, J.L., Gender Roles and Power, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1984

Chandra, Vinita, Gender Relations in Early India, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2010.

Chatterjee, Mohini, Feminism and Gender Equality, Aavishkar, Jaipur, 2005.

Delaat, J, Gender in the Workplace, Sage, California, 2007.

Desai, Leela, Issues in Feminism, Pointer Publications, Jaipur, 2004.

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Dex, S., Sexual Division of Work: Conceptual Revolutions in the Social

Sciences, Harvester Wheatsheaf , Brighton, 1985.

Gupta, Abha and Sinha, Smita (eds.) Empowerment of Women: Language and Other Facets,

Mangal Deep Publications, Jaipur, 2005.

Gupta, Parachi, Religion and Feminism, ABD Publications, Jaipur, 2007.

Hearn, Jeff, The Gender of Oppression: Men, Masculinity and the Critique of Marxism,

Wheatsheaf Books, Sussex, 1987.

Judge,P.S., Mapping Social Exclusion in India : Caste, Religion and Borderlands,

Cambridge University Press, Delhi,2014.

Khullar, Mala, (ed.), Writings in Women’s Studies: A Reader, Zubaan Publications, New

Delhi, 2005.

Lal, Malashri & Kumar, Sukrita Paul (eds.), Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change,

IIAS, Shimla, 2002.

Madan, T.N., (ed.), Religion in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013.

Mahla,A. and Kataria,S.,(eds), Bharat Mein Mahila Sshaktrikaran, Malik and Company,

Jaipur, 2014.

Misra, R,(ed.), Rethinking Gender, Rawat Publications, Jaipur,2014.

Poynton, Cate, Language and Gender: Making the Difference, OUP, Oxford, 1989.

Rege, Sharmila (ed.), Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological

Knowledge, Sage, New Delhi, 2003.

Singh, Indu Prakash, Indian Women: The Power Trapped, Galaxy Publications, New Delhi,

1991.

Singh, Subhash Chandru, Gender Violence, Serials Publications, New Delhi, 2011.

Spade, Joan, The Kaleidoscope of Gender, Sage, Los Angeles, 2008.

Viz,M.,Bhatia,M. and Pandey,S.(eds), Women Studies in India: A Journey of 25 Years,

Rawat Publications, Jaipur,2014.

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Paper II: Women’s Movements in India Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course aims at enabling the students to comprehend the vibrancy of the

women’s movements in India. It attempts to make the students aware of the Indian women’s

journey towards gender equality, vis-à-vis her own role as well as that of the women’s

movement.

Unit I

- Women’s Movement as a Social Movement

- Women’s Movement in Pre-Independence period in India: With a special

focus on

• Women’s Issues taken up by Social Reformers

• Women in the Suffrage Movement

• Women’s Participation in the National Movement (with special

reference to Women in the Civil Disobedience Movement, Quit India

Movement and Women’s revolutionary activities.)

Unit II Women’s Movement in Post-Independence period in India

a) An overview of women’s movement from 1947 to present (with a focus on

ideological basis)

b)

• Environmental Movements- Chipko movement, Narmada Bachao Andolan

• Controversy around Uniform Civil Code and its Impact on Women’s

Movement

Unit III Women’s Movements in India:

- Movements against:

o Sati

o Dowry

o Rape

- Autonomous Women’s Movement (with special focus on the conferences

of the Autonomous Women’s Movement)

Unit IV Contemporary Issues taken up by Women’s Movement in India:

• Dalit Women’s Issues

• Trafficking in women

• Honour Killings and Khap Panchayats

• Fundamentalism/ Casteism

• Violence against women

• Women in Armed Conflict



(ii) For improvement and reappear candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal

assessment, the marks secured by them in the theory paper will proportionately be

increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu of internal assessment.

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Essential Readings:

Basu, Aparna, The Role of Women in the Indian Struggle for Freedom in B.R.Nanda (ed.),

Indian Women: From Purdah to Modernity, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and

Vikas/ Radiant Publications, New Delhi, 1990.

Desai, Neera, A Decade of Women’s Movement in India, Meena Pandev, Bombay, 1988.

Gandhi, Nandita and Shah, Nandita, The Issues at Stake: Theory and Practice in the

Contemporary Women’s Movement in India, Kali, New Delhi, 1992.

Goonesekere, Savitri (ed.), Violence, Law and Women’s Rights in South Asia, Sage, New

Delhi, 2004.

Khullar, Mala, (ed.), Writings in Women’s Studies: A Reader, Zubaan Publications, New

Delhi, 2005.

Kuumba, M. Bahati, Gender and Social Movements, Rawat Publications, New Delhi, 2003.

Mazumdar, Vina, Peasant Women Organise for Empowerment: The Bankura Experiment,

CWDS, New Delhi, 1989 (Occasional Papers).

Mishra, Anupam and Tripathi, Satyendra, Chipko Movement: Uttarakhand Women’s Bid to

Save Forest Wealth, Radhakrishna for People’s Action, New Delhi, 1978.

Mohanti, Bedabati, Violence against Women: an Analysis of Contemporary Realities,

Kanishka Publications, New Delhi, 2005.

Kumar, Radha, The History of Doing, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993.

Rajawat, Mamta, Dalit Women: Issues and Perspectives, Anmol Publications, New Delhi,

2005.

Rao, MSA, Social Movements in India, Vol I, Manohar, New Delhi, 1979.

Sharma, Kumud, Shared Aspirations, Fragmented Realities: Contemporary Women’s

Movement in India: Its Dialectics and Dilemmas, Occasional Paper No. 12, CWDS, New

Delhi, 1989.

Thaper, Suruchi, Women in the Indian National Movement, Sage Classics, New Delhi, 2015

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Further Readings:

Arya, Sadhna, Women, Gender Equality and the State, Deep and Deep Publications, New

Delhi, 2000.

Banaszak, Lee Ann, The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State, Cambridge

University Press, Cambridge New York, 2010

Chattopadyayay, Kamala Devi, Indian Women’s Battle for Freedom, Abhinav Publications,

New Delhi, 1990.

Chavan, Nandini, and Kidwai, Qutub Jahan, Personal Law Reforms and Gender

Empowerment: A Debate on Uniform Civil Code, Hope India, Gurgaon, 2006.

Chawla, Romila, Reader on Women Trafficking, Life Span Publishers, New Delhi, 2012.

Choudhary, Prem, Contentious Marriages: Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy

in Northern India, OUP, New Delhi, 2007.

Desai, Neera and Krishnaraj, Maithreyi (ed.), Women and Society in India, Ajanta

Publications, New Delhi, 1987.

Farooqui, Vimla, A Short History of Women’s Movement in India, Communist Party Pub.,

New Delhi, July, 1996.

Jahan, Farhat, Women in India, Anmol Publication, Delhi, 2004.

Kaur, Manmohan, Role of Women in the Freedom Movement: 1851-1947, Sterling Publishers

Ltd., New Delhi, 1968.

Kishwar, Madhu and Vanita, Ruth, In Search of Answers, Horizon India, Zed Books, London,

1984.

Mohanty, Manoranjan, (eds.), Class, Caste, Gender, Sage, New Delhi, 2004.

Nayak, Sarojini and Nair, Jeevan, Women’s Empowerment in India, Pointer Pub., Jaipur,

2005

Poitevia, Guy and Rairkar, Hema, Indian Peasant Women Speak up, Orient Longman,

Bombay, 1993.

Shah, Ghanshyam, Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature, Sage, New Delhi,

1990.

Sharma, Kumud, Women in Struggle: Role and Participation of Women in the Chipko

Movement in Uttarakhand Region of U.P., CWDS, New Delhi, 1987.

Verma, Sneha, Dalit Women : Fear and Discrimination, Mohit Publications, New Delhi, 2010.

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Paper III: Feminist Theory Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course examines the various theories propounded by feminists to explain the

matrix of domination from the nineteenth century to the present. It further seeks to introduce the

students to the key debates within feminist theorising as well as the shift in the terrain of the

debates.

Unit I Feminism:

- Definition and origin of Feminism

- Three Waves of Feminism

- Feminism and Traditional Social and Political Thought: Critique

and Difference

Unit II Streams of Feminism:

- Liberal Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Jessie Bernard

- Radical Feminism: Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone,

Judith Butler

Unit III Streams of Feminism (contd.):

Marxist/Socialist Feminism

- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

- Maria Mies

- Juliet Mitchell

- Gayle Rubin

Unit IV: Other Trends in Feminist Theory:

- Black Feminism

- Cultural Feminism

- Psychoanalytic Feminism (Freudian feminism)

- Postmodernism

- Countertrends: Backlash to feminism






assessment.








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Essential Readings:

Anderson, Margaret, Thinking About Women, Macmillan, New York, 1993.

Beasley, Chris, What is Feminism?, Sage, London, 1999

Bell, Hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Pluto Press, London, 1982.

Bhagwat, Vidyut, Feminist Social Thought: An Introduction to Six Key Thinkers, Rawat,

Jaipur, 2004.

Bhasin,K. and Khan, N.S., Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia, Women Unlimited, New

Delhi, 2013.

Chatterjee, Mohini, Feminism and Gender Equality, Aavishkar, Jaipur, 2005

Desai, Leela, Issues in Feminism, Pointer Pub., Jaipur, 2004.

Geetha, V., Theorizing Feminism, Stree, Kolkata, 2012.

Jaggar, Alison M., Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Rowman & Allanheld, Sussex, 1983.

Jain, Jasbir, Women in Patriarchy: Cross- Cultural Readings, Rawat, Jaipur, 2005.

Nicholson, Linda, Feminism/ Postmodernism, Routledge, New York, 1990.

Nicholson, Linda, The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, Routledge, New York,

1997.

Further Readings:

Banks, Olive, Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, St. Martin’s

Press, New York, 1981.

Bowden, Peta and Hummery, Jane, Understanding Feminism, Rawat Publications, Jaipur,

2012.

Eisenstein, Zillah, Capitalist Patriarchy and the case for Socialist Feminism, Monthly

Review Press, New York, 1979.

Essed, Philomena et al (eds.), A Companion to Gender Studies, Blackwell Pub., Oxford, 2005.

Freeman, Jo, (ed.), Women: A Feminist Perspective, Palo Alto, California: Mayfield, 1975.

Harish, Ranjana and Harishankar, V. Bharathi,(ed.), Re-defining Feminisms, Rawat

Publications, 2008.

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Kosambi, Meera, Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History, Permanent Black,

New Delhi, 2007.

Krishnaraj, Maithreyi (ed.), Feminist Concepts: Part 1, 2, and 3, Contribution to Women’s

Studies Series-7, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay,

1990.

Mishra, Binod, (ed.), Critical Responses to Feminism, Sapru & Sons, New Delhi, 2006.

Price, Lisa S., Feminist Frameworks, Aakar Pub., New Delhi, 2009.

Shukla, Bhaskar A., Feminism: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Betty Friedan, Sapru and

Sons, New Delhi, 2007.

Spender, Dale, Feminism Theorists: Three Centuries of Women’s Intellectual Traditions,

The Women’s Press, London, 1982.

Tong, Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Westview Press, San

Francisco, 1989.

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Paper IV: Basics of Social Research Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course aims at providing the students with a firm grounding in research

methodology through a comprehensive understanding of the concepts as well as the tools and

techniques employed in research in social sciences in general and women’s studies in particular.

The students shall also be familiarized with the basic statistical concepts used in social research.

Unit I Basic of Social Research:

• Meaning, Pure and Applied Research, Ethics in Research

• Scientific Method: Definition, Objectives, Application to Social Sciences, Issues of

Subjectivity-Objectivity

• Conceptual Foundations: Concepts and Constructs, Fact and Theory; Hypothesis:

Features, Types, Induction & Deduction

Unit II Process of Research:

• Steps of Research & Formulation of Research Problem

• Data: Meaning and Types

• Data Collection: Observation, Interview, Questionnaire and their types

Unit III Research Design:

• Definition & Types (Exploratory, Descriptive, Experimental, Explanatory)

• Issues in Experimental Research Design

• Sampling: Probability & Non-Probability, their types

Unit IV Data Processing:

• Variables – Discrete and Continuous; Independent and Dependent

• Levels of Measurement-Nominal, Ordinal and Interval

• Central Tendency-Mean, Median and Mode

• Range, Variance and Standard Deviation

• Data Editing, Coding, Tabulation and Report Writing






assessment.

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First question shall be Short Answer type containing 15 short questions spread over

the whole syllabus to be answered in about 25 to 30 words. The candidate is required to




Essential Readings:

Boynton, Petra M., Research Companion: A Practical Guide for Social and Health Sciences,

Psychology Press, Hove, 2005.

Bryman, Alan, Social Research Methods, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2014.

Burton, Dawn, (ed.) Research Training for Social Scientists, Sage, New Delhi, 2000.

Creswell, John W., Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Method

Approaches, Sage, London, 2009.

Davis, Martin Brett, Doing a Successful Research Project: Using Qualitative or Quantitative

Methods, Paulgrave, Hampshire, 2007.

Goode, William J. and Hatt, Paul K., Methods in Social Research, McGraw Hill Book

Company, USA, Latest edition.

Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, Willey Eastern Ltd., New

Delhi, 1995.

Krishanaraj, Maithreyi (ed.), Evolving New Methodologies in Research on Women’s Studies,

SNDT Women’s University, Bombay, 1985.

Further Readings:

Kumar, Ranjit, Research Methodology, Sage Publications Ltd., New Delhi, 2014.

Plano Clark, Vicki L., The Mixed Methods Reader, Sage, Los Angeles, 2008.

Moser, C.A., and Kalton, G., Survey Methods in Social Investigation, The English Language

Book Society, London, 1979.

Nachmias, David and Nachmias, Chara, Research Methods in Social Sciences, St. Martin’s

Press, New York, 1997.

Seltiz, Clarie, Jahoda, Marie, Deutsch, Morton, Cook, Stuart W., Research Methods in Social

Relations, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, Latest edition.

Silverman, David (ed.) Qualitative Research. Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2012.

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Shulamit, Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research, Oxford University Press, New

York, 1992.

Thakur, Devendra, Research Methodology in Social Sciences, Deep and Deep Pub., New

Delhi, 2003.

Warren, B. Carol, Gender Issues in Field Research, New Delhi, 1988.

Young, Pauline V., Scientific Social Research and Survey, Asia Pub. House, New Delhi, Latest

edition.

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Semester II : All the four papers are Compulsory

Marks

Paper I - Feminism: An Indian Perspective 100

Paper II - Emerging Trends in Feminist Research Methodology 100

Paper III - United Nations and Women’s Issues 100

Paper IV - Optional Paper

(i) Field Project

OR 100

(ii) Women and Environment

NOTE:


written examination and for 20 marks on the basis of internal assessment

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Paper I: Feminism: An Indian Perspective Time: 3 Hours

Objective: Feminism in India is not a singular theoretical orientation; it has changed over

time in relation to historical and cultural realities, levels of consciousness, perceptions

and actions of individual women and women as a group. This course aims at acquainting

the students with the Indian feminist traditions from ancient times to the present, a

tradition which has arisen out of the heterogeneity of Indian experience.

Unit I Women in Ancient Indian Tradition:

- Vedas and Epics

- Women in Ancient Indian Thought: Arthashastra (Kautilya) and

Manusmriti, Therigathas

Unit II Feminist Consciousness from Medieval to Pre-Colonial India:

Cases of

- Razia Sultan

- Nurjahan

- Jahanara.

- Zeb-u-Nissa

Unit III Women in Calonial India

- Feminists in Colonial India:

• Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

• Tara Bai Shinde

- Contribution of Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar

Unit IV Emerging Feminist Trends in India:

- Eco-Feminism in India: Vandana Shiva and Bina Aggarwal

- Dalit Feminism






assessment.








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Essential Readings:

Altekar, A.S., The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, Motilal, Banarsidass,

Delhi, 1959.

Das, R.M., Women in Manu’s Philosophy, ABS Pub., Jalandhar, 1993.

Ghadially, Rehana, (ed.), Women in Indian Society: A Reader, Sage, New Delhi, 1988.

Kelkar, Meena and Gangavane, Deepti, Feminism in Search of an Identity: The Indian

Context, Rawat, Jaipur, 2003.


Ray,B., Early feminists of Colonial India : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya

Sakhawat Hossain, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013.

Shah, Kirit K. and Seshan, Radhika, Visibilising Women: Facets of History through a

Gender Lens, Kalpaz Pub., Delhi, 2005.

Shiva, Vandana, Staying Alive, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1988.

Venkateshwara, Sandhya, Environment, Development and the Gender Gap, Sage


Further Readings:-

Agarwal, Supriya, Gender, History and Culture, Rawat, Jaipur, 2009.

Ali, Azra Asghar, The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women:

1920-1947, Oxford, Karachi, 2000.

Bader, Clarisse, Women in Ancient India: Moral and Literary Studies, Anmol Pub.,

Delhi, 1987.

Bakshi, S.R., Gandhi and the Status of Women, Criterion Pub., New Delhi, 1987.

Bazaz, Prem Nath, Daughter of the Vitasta: A History of Kashmiri Women from

Early Times to the Present Day, Gulshan Pub., Srinagar, 2003.

Chaturvedi, Archna (ed.), Muslim Women: from Tradition to Modernity,

Commonwealth, New Delhi, 2004.

Geeta, V., Patriarchy (Theorising Feminism), Stree, Kolkatta, 2007.

Jacobson, Doranne and Wadley, Susan S., Women in India: Two Perspectives,

Manohar, New Delhi, 1986.

Jain,J., Nariwad ke Deshad Aadhar, Rawat Publication, Jaipur, 2014.

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Jain, Jasbir, Women in Patriarchy: Cross Cultural Readings, Rawat, Jaipur, 2005.

Jayawardane, Kumari, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, The Institute of

Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, 1987.

Kumar, Hajira (ed.), Status of Muslim Women in India, Aakar Books, Delhi, 2002.

Omvedt, Gail, Dalits and the Democratic Revolution, Sage, New Delhi, 1994.

Omvedt, Gail, Feminism and the Women’s Movement in India, RCWS, SNDT,

Bombay, 1987.

Padia, Chandrakala (ed), Feminism, Tradition and Modernity, IIAS, Shimla, 2002.

Padia, Chandrakala, Women in the Dharmasastras, Rawat, Jaipur, 2009.

Rajawat, Mamta, Dalit Women: Issues and Perspectives, Anmol Pub., New Delhi,

2005.

Ramaswamy, Vijaya (ed.), Re-searching Indian Women, Manohar, Delhi, 2003.

Sarkar, Sumita and Sarkar, Tanika, (ed.), Women and Social Reform in Modern India:

A Reader, Vol. II, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2011.

Tagra, Vinod, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Status of Women in India: An Analytical

Study, Reliance, New Delhi, 2006.

Thakur, Bharti, Women in Gandhi’s Mass Movements, Deep and Deep, New Delhi,

2006.

Singh, H., The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History and Fable in India, Cambridge

University Press, Delhi, 2014.

Nagori,S.L. and Nagori K., Krantikari Mahila Kosh, Malik and Company, Jaipur, 2014.

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Paper II: Emerging Trends in Feminist Research Methodology Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course introduces the students to the emerging methodologies in social

science research, particularly the feminist research and qualitative research. It also

exposes the students to the mixed techniques of quantitative and qualitative methods in

social research. The specific focus of the course is to train the students in feminist

research methodology and its tools and techniques

Unit I Feminist Research Methodology: • Differentiation between Social Sciences research and Feminist research

• Feminist Methodology: Meaning, Rationale, a brief background on Feminist

Standpoint

• Issues in Women’s Studies and feminist research

• Problems/Limitations of Feminist research

Unit II Qualitative Research Methodology: • Differentiation between Quantitative and Qualitative research approaches

• Qualitative Methods: Features, Merits and Limitations

• Research Methods: Case Study, Ethnography, Oral History, Narratives, Focus Group

Unit III Research Methods: • Meta Analysis: Merits and Types

• Triangulation: Merits and Types

• Content Analysis

UNIT IV Qualitative Data Analysis and Report Writing: • Data Analysis

• Computer-assisted data Analysis; NUD*IST, N Vivo

• Report Writing

• Dissemination of research findings


i) There will be 80 marks for the theory paper and 20 marks for internal assessment.

ii) For improvement and reappear candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for



assessment.





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Essential Readings:

Creswell, John W., Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Method

Approaches, Sage, N. Delhi, 2009.

Boynton, Petra M., Research Companion: A Practical Guide for the Social and

Health Sciences, Psychology Press, Hove, 2005.

Bryman, Alan, Social Research Methods, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2014.

Burton, Dawn (eds.) Research Training for Social Scientists, Sage, New Delhi, 2000.

Hennink, Monique, Hutter, Inge and Bailey, Ajay., Qualitative Research Methods,

Sage, New Delhi, 2011.

Mcneill, Patrick and Chapman, Steve, Research Methods, Routledge Pub., London, 2005.

Singleton, Royace A. and Straits, Bruce C., Approaches to Social Research, OUP, New

York, 1999.

Sobha, I. and Reddy, M.S.N., Research Methodology in Women’s Studies, Anmol

Publications Private Limited, New Delhi, 2009.

Warren, B. Carol, Gender Issues in Field Research, New Delhi, 1988.

Chaudhari, Sarit K., Fieldwork in South Asia, Sage Publication, New Delhi, 2014.

Further Readings:

Bulmar, Martin (ed.), Sociological Research Methods, Palgrave, Hampshire, 2007.

Denzin, Normanz and Yvonnas, Lincoln, The Landscape of Qualitative Research:

Theories and Issues, Sage, New Delhi, 2003.

Hennink, Monique, Hutter, Inge and Bailey, Ajay, Qualitative Research Methods, Sage

Publications Ltd., London, 2011.

Plano Clark, Vicki L., The Mixed Methods Reader, Sage, Los Angeles, 2008.

Sarantakos, Sotirios, A Tool Kit for Quantitative Data Analysis, Palgrave, Hampshire, 2007

Shulamit, Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research, Oxford University Press,

New York, 1992.

Thakur, Devendra, Research Methodology in Social Sciences, Deep and Deep, New

Delhi, 2003.

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Paper III: The United Nations and Women’s Issues Time: 3 Hours .Objective: This course aims to conscientise the students about the efforts made at the

level of the United Nations for securing the empowerment and development of women. It

further seeks to make the students aware of the international instruments which seek to

protect and promote the rights of women.

Unit I United Nations:

- Charter,

- Structure of the United Nations.

- Organs and Specialised Agencies working on Women’s Issues (Economic

and Social Council, CSW, UN Women, UNESCAP, UNDP, INSTRAW).

Unit II UN Conferences on Women:

- Mexico,

- Copenhagen,

- Nairobi,

- Beijing and follow up

Unit III Other World/ UN Conferences with a Focus on Women’s Issues:

- UN Conference on Environment and Development,

- Vienna Conference on Human Rights,

- International Conference on Population and Development,

- World Summit on Social Development.

Unit IV Conventions and Treaties with a special focus on women:

- Convention on the Political Rights of Women,

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against

Women and Optional Protocol

- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women,

. Sustainable Development Goals






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Essential Readings:

United Nations Documents:

- United Nations and the Advancement of Women (1945-1996).

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against

Women, (CEDAW) 1979.

- Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies (1980).

- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED-

1992).

- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993).

- International Conference on Population & Development (ICPD-1994).

- The World Summit on Social Development, 1995.

- Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration, 1995.

- Beijing +5 Political Declaration and Outcome Document, 2000.

- World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002.

Further Readings:

Basu, Amrita (ed.), The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in

Global Perspective, Westview, 1995.

Brownlie, Ian, Basic Documents in International Law, Oxford, New York, 2009.

Deckard, Barbara Sinclair, Women’s Movement: Political, Socio-economic and

Psychological Issues, Harper and Raw, New York, 1975.

Jain, Devaki, Women Development and the UN: A Sixty Year Quest for Equality and

Justice, Orient Longman, Delhi, 2006.

Patel, Krishna-Ahooja, Development has a Woman’s Face: Insights from within the

UN, APH Pub., New Delhi, 2007.

Renzetti, Claire M., Edleson, Jeffrey L. and Bergen, Raquel, Kennedy, Source book on

Violence against Women, Sage Publications, London, 2011.

Rowland, Robyn (ed.), Women Who Do and Women Who Don’t Join the Women’s

Movement, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1984.

Subramaniam, A., Shorelines: Space and Rights in South Asia, Yoda Press, New

Delhi,2013.

Sinha,M.K., Implementations of Basic Human Rights, Lexis Nexis, Gurgaon, 2013.

Sagade, J.,Child Marriage in India : Socio-Legal and Human Rights Dimensions,

Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012.

Threlfall, Monica (ed.), Mapping the Women’s Movement: Feminist Politics and

Social Transformation in the North, Verso, London, 1996.

Wortis, Helen and Rabinowitz, Clara (eds.) Women’s Movement: Social and

Psychological Perspectives, AMS Press, New York, 1972.

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Paper IV: Option (i) Field Project

Objective: Women’s studies cannot be limited to the classroom. The students can be aware of

the realities only if they go into the field and interact with society and the people. Further, the

students must be trained not only in the theoretical aspects of research methodology, but in the

practical aspects through actually carrying out a small field based study. It is with this objective

that a compulsory paper on project work has been conceived.

The students will be required to take up a small empirical study in which they will

be required to submit a written report of about 40-50 typed pages.

The framework of the Report shall be as follows:

• Title Page containing name of project, name of candidate and the name of

supervisor

• Table of contents

• Introductory Chapter consisting of statement of the problem, review of

literature (minimum of 7 books/ articles), Research Questions/ hypothesis,

Objectives and Methodology

• 2-3 main chapters

• Concluding chapter presenting the conclusions arrived at from the study

• Select Bibliography

• Annexure

The broad areas for research would be:

- Women in Unorganised Sector

- Violence Against Women

- Women and Empowerment

- Women and Politics

- Women and Development

- Women and Globalisation

- Dalit Women

- Women’s Movements

- Women and Media

- Women and Health

- Women and Work

(These are only some of the identified areas. Students can choose from other areas also.)

Supervisor

For the purpose of conducting Project Work, the students shall be required to work under

a Supervisor appointed from within the Departmental Faculty by the Academic

Committee of the Department.

Note for Evaluation: The candidate will be assessed for 60 marks on the basis of

the written report and for 40 marks on the basis of a viva voce examination.

Board of Examiners for Evaluation (including written Report and viva voce)

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The Board of Examiners shall consist of:

a) One Faculty member of the Dept-cum Centre for Women’s Studies

nominated by the Departmental Academic Committee

b) The Supervisor/s of the candidate

c) Chairperson shall be on the Board only for viva voce examination.

OR

Paper IV-Option (ii): Women and Environment Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course focuses on the profound and unique roles that women have

played in protecting and enhancing the natural environment and human health. Students

will explore a range of environmental and environmental health issues from the

perspective of women, and learn about some of the key strides towards improving our

environment in which women have been the driving force.

Unit I Women - Environment Relationship:

a. Why Environment is a Gender issue?

b. Areas of Concern like Deforestation, Land and water management, Dams,

Soil erosion, Urbanisation, Flora and Fauna, Pollution.

c. Women’s struggle for livelihood, fodder, fuel and food.

Unit II Women and Environment: a. Conflict over Natural Resources (land, water and forests) and Women,

b. Participation of Women in Social Forestry and Development.

c. Environmental Exposure and overall impact on Women’s Health.

Unit III Eco-feminism:

• Emergence of Nature as Feminine principle

• Eco Feminism : Global perspective

• Eco Feminism : Indian perspective

• Critique of Eco-feminism

Unit IV National and International Perspectives on Women and the Environment:

• Sustainable Development and Environment

• Environmental Policy of India and Women,

• International Conferences on Environment, Agenda 21 of Rio Conference.

• The UN Climate Change Conferences






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Essential Readings:

Ahooja-Patel, Krishna, Women and Development, Ashish Publication House, New

Delhi, 1995.


Ramesh Jairam, Green Signals : Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India, Oxford

University Press, New Delhi, 2015.

Shiva, Vandana and Moser, Ingunn (eds.), Bio Politics: A Feminist and Ecological

Reader on Biotechnology, Zed Books Ltd., London, 1995.

Shiva Vandana, Globalisations’s New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms,Women

Unlimited, New Delhi, 2005.

Shiva Vandana, Staying Alive, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1988.

Swarup, Hemlata and Rajput, Pam, Gender Dimensions of Environmental and

Development Debate: The Indian Experience, in Stuart S. Nagel, (ed.), India’s

Development and Public Policy, Ashgate, Burlington, 2000.

Venkateshwara, Sandhya, Environment, Development and the Gender Gap, Sage


Further Readings:

Braidotti, Rosi, Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a

Theoretical Synthesis, Zed Books, London, 1994.

Dankelman, Irene and Davidson, Joan, Women and Environment in the third World:

Alliance for the future, Earthscan, London, 1988.

Kapur, Promilla (ed.), Empowering Indian Women, Publication Division, Government

of India, New Delhi, 2000.

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Kumar, S.B., Environmental Problems & Gandhian Solutions, Deep & Deep

Publications Private Limited, N. Delhi, 2002.

Mallik, Seema, Women, Panchayats and Natural Resource Management: The Role

of PRIs in Nayagarh District of Orissa, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2011.

Markandey, Simhadri and Simhadri,S. Globalization, Environment and Human

Development, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2011.

Mehta, Pradeep K. and Cronin, Aidan A., Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation

Programmes: Lessons from India, Sage Publications, N. Delhi, 2015.

Monga, G.S., Environment and Development, Deep & Deep Publications Private

Limited, N. Delhi, 2001.

Pattanaik, Chandra Mohan, Human Rights, Gender and Environment, Swastik

Publications, N. Delhi, 2013.

Radha, S. , Sankhyan, Amar Singh, Environmental Challenges of 21st Century, Deep

& Deep Publications Private Limited, N. Delhi, 2002.

Ramaswamy, S. and Kumar, G. Sathis, Environmental Sustainability: Approaches

and Policy options, Regal Publications, New Delhi, 2010.

Rodda, Annabel, Women and the environment, Zed Books, London, 1991.

Sontheimer, Sally Ann, Women and the Environment: A reader, Earthscan, London,

1991.

United Nations Environment Programme, One Planet, Many People, 2005.

United Nations Environment Programme, Planet in Peril, 2006.

Vernooy, Ronnie (ed.), Social and Gender Analysis in Natural resource Management,:

Learning Studies and Lessons from Sage, New Delhi, 2006.

Warren, Karen J., Ecofeminism, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2014.

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Semester III In this Semester, there are three Compulsory papers and one

Optional paper.

Compulsory Papers Marks Paper I - Women and Law-I 100

Paper II - Women and Development 100

Paper III - Women and Human Rights 100

Paper IV - Optional Paper 100 (Candidate will be required to opt for one paper out of the following

courses offered)

Option (i) Women and Management

Option (ii) Women and Entrepreneurship

Option (iii) Training in Practical Skills

Option (iv) Women, Science and Technology

NOTE:



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Paper I: Women and Law – I Time: 3 Hours

Objective: The aim of this course is to develop the students understanding of the

Constitutional rights and also provide an analysis of the various laws particularly

impacting women in India. The emphasis of the course is on critically examining the

existing laws from a feminist perspective and the loopholes therein and also to study the

issues raised by the women’s movement in India regarding these legislations.

Unit I (a) Law as an agent for Social Change,

(b) The Constitution of India and the Gender Question

- Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties

- Directive Principles of State Policy

Unit II Laws of Marriage (Hindu and Muslim):

a) Hindu Marriage Act

- Age at marriage (Legal and Customary)

- Void marriages, Voidable marriage

- Bigamy

b) Muslim Marriage Laws:

The Muslim Personal Law ( Shariat) Application Act, 1937 (26 of 1937)

- Age at marriage (Legal and Customary)

- Void marriages, Voidable marriage

- Repudiation of marriage

- Mehar

- Quran on the permission of Four Marriages

c) Conversion for the sake of marriage

d) Special Marriage Act, 1954

Unit III Divorce Laws :

(a) Judicial Separation and Divorce

(b) Hindu Divorce Laws

(c) Muslim Divorce Laws

(Extra-Judicial Divorce – Unilateral, Bilateral)

(d) Maintenance Laws: Hindu, Muslim, Cr.P.C. Section 125 read with Section 127

of Cr.P.C.

Unit IV Women and Property Rights including Right to Succession and Inheritance:

(with reference to Hindu and Muslim Laws); Succession Act as amended in 2005, Triple Talaq)

(Note: The emphasis of the course will be on critically examining the existing

laws from the feminist perspective and loopholes therein.)

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SETTERS AND THE CANDIDATES (i) There will be 80 marks for the theory paper and 20 marks for internal assessment.




assessment.








Essential Readings:

Aggarwal, Nomita, Women and Law in India, New Century Publication, Delhi, 2002.

Anand, A.S., Justice for Women: Concepts and Experience, Universal Law Pub., New

Delhi, 2002.

Bakshi, P.M., Constitution of India, Universal Law Pub., New Delhi, 2006.

Basu, D.D., Introduction to the Constitution of India, Wadhwa and Co. Agra, 2001.

Chawla, Monica, Gender Justice: Women and Law in India, Deep and Deep, New

Delhi, 2006.

Diwan, Paras, Family law, (Law of Marriage and Divorce in India), Sterling

Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1983.

Gill, Kulwant, Hindu Women’s Right to Property in India, Deep and Deep, New

Delhi, 1986.

Kannabiran, Kalpana, Women and Law, Sage Publication, New Delhi, 2014.

Kapur, Ratna and Crossman, Brenda, Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in

India, Sage, New Delhi, 1996.

Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Domain: Interdisciplinary Essays on

Women and Law in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996.

Mitter, Dwarka Nath, The Position of Women in Hindu Law, Cosmo Pub., New Delhi,

2006.

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Shams, Shamusuddin, Women, Law and Social Change, Ashish Publishing House,

New Delhi, 1991.

Sivaramayya, B., Matrimonial Property in India, Oxford University Publications, New Delhi, 1999.

Mukhopadhyay, Swapna, In the Name of Justice: Women and Law in Society,

Manohar, New Delhi, 1998.

T, Brettel, Dawson, (ed.), Women, Law and Social Change: Core Reading and

Current Issues, 2nd

ed., O N, Captus Press, New York, 1990.

Relevant Bare Acts

Further Readings:

Bhandari, Asha and Mehta, Rekha, Women, Justice and the Rule of Law, Serials Publications,

New Delhi, 2009.

Crites L. Lavra el., Women, The Court and Equality, Sage, New Delhi, 1987.

Desai, A.R., Women’s Liberation and Politics of Religious Personal Laws in India,

C.G.Shah Memorial Trust, Bombay, 1986.

Diwan, Paras, Dowry and Protection to Married Women, Deep and Deep Publication,

New Delhi, 1987.

Goel,S. and Dhillon,B.S., Burning Issues on Family Law in India, Walden Publishers,

USA, 2014.

Ghosh, S. K., Women in Changing Society, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1984.

Government of India, Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937.

Jaisingh, Indira(ed.), Justice for Women: Personal Laws, Women’s Rights and Law

Reforms, The Other India Press, Mapuse, Goa, 1996.

K.Uma Devi (ed.), Property Rights of Women, Serials Pub., New Delhi, 2006.

Kant, Anjani, Women and the Law, A.P.H. Pub., New Delhi, 2008.

Krishna Iyer, V. R., Law and Religion, Deep and Deep Publication, New Delhi, 1984.

Parashar, Archana, Redefining Family Law in India, Routledge, London, 2008.

Ratra, Amiteshwar, Kaur,Parveen and Chhikara, Sudha, Marriage and Family: In

Diverse and Changing Scenario, Deep and Deep, New Delhi, 2006.

Sarkar, Tanika and Butalia, Urvashi, Women and Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi,

1996.

Singh, Indu Prakash, Women, law and Social Change in India, Radiant, New Delhi, 1989.

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Paper II: Women and Development Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This paper focuses on the issues related to the processes of development and

its impact on women, particularly in the context of a developing nation like India. The

attempt is to equip the students to understand major aspects of critique of development

through a gender lens and its global and local contexts.

Unit I Difference between Growth and Development, The Concept of Development,

Gender as a Development issue.

- Development Strategies:

• Trickledown theory

• Basic needs strategy

• Structural adjustment strategy

• Sustainable Human Development Strategy

- Women in Development (WID), Women and Development (WAD),

Gender and Development (GAD)

Unit II The impact of Globalisation and Structural Adjustment Policies (SAP) on

women with special reference to India, in the fields of

- Education

- Health

- Agriculture

- Formal Sector and

- Informal Sector

Unit III Gender Analysis Frameworks, and Gender Mainstreaming

- Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting

- Micro credit and Women’s Development in India: Rationale, Alternative

Arrangements and efficacy

- Sustainable Development Goals

Unit IV National Machinery for the Advancement of Women

- Policies and Programmes for Women’s Development

- Five Year Plans and Women’s Issues

- National Mission for Empowerment of Women






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Essential Readings:

Ahooja-Patel, Krishna, Women and Development, Ashish Publishing House, New

Delhi, 1995.

Batra, G.S. and Dangwal, R.C. (eds.), Globalisation and Liberalisation: New

Developments, Deep and Deep, New Delhi, 2004.

Boserup, E. Women’s Role in Economic Development, St. Martin Press, New York,

U.S.A., 1970.

Government of India, Blue Print of Action Points and National Plan of Action for

Women, 1976, Development of Social Welfare, New Delhi.

Government of India, National Policy of Education, Deptt. of Education, Ministry of

Human Resource Development, 1986, New Delhi.

Government of India, Shramshakti: Report of the National Commission on Self-

Employed Women and Women in the Informal Sector, New Delhi, 1988.

Government of India, Five Year Plans (1st to 10

th), Planning Commission, New Delhi.

Gupte, Shakuntla, Women Development in India, Anmol Pub., New Delhi, 2005.

Handbook of Policy and Related Documents on Women in India, National Institute of

Public Co-operation and Child development, New Delhi, 1988.

Hettige,Siri, Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia, Sage Publication,

New Delhi, 2015.

Mathur, Anuradha (ed.) Facets of Women’s Development, Kalpaz Pub., Delhi, 2006.

National Perspective Plan for Women, 1988-2000, Department of Women and Child

Development, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi, 1988.

Pachauri, R.K., Global Sustainable Development Report, Oxford University Press New

Delhi,2015.

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Report on Gender and Poverty –Published by the World Bank, 1990.

Sahoo, R.K., Tripathy, S.N., Self Help Groups and Women’s Empowerment, Anmol


South Asia Human Development Reports 2000 and 2004, Mahbub ul Haq Human

Development Centre.

UNDP Human Development Reports, 1995-2005. Further Readings:

Dash, Gyanindra, Rural Employment and Economic Development, Regal, Delhi,

2009.

Desai, Neera, Changing Status of Women: Policies and Programmes in Amit Kumar

Gupta (ed.), Women and Society, Criterion Prakashan, 1986.

Dixon-Mueller, Ruth and Anker, Richard, Assessing Women’s Economic Contribution to

Development, ILO, Geneva, 1988.

Draze,J. and Sen,A., India Development and Participation, Oxford University Press, New

Delhi, 2014

Gulati, Leela, Profiles in Female Poverty, Hindustan Publications, New Delhi, 1982.

Heyzer, Noeleen and Sen, Gita, (ed.), Gender, Economic Growth and Poverty, Kali for

Women, New Delhi, 1994.

Jain, Devaki, Development as if Women Mattered, Monograph, ISS, New Delhi, 1983.

Julia Cleves, Mosse, Half the World, Half a Chance: An Introduction to Gender and

Development. Why Development is a Gender Issue: pp 9-28, UK: Oxfam, 1993.

Kalpagam, Usha, Rural Women and Development in India, Rawat, Jaipur, 2008.

Krishanaraj, Maitreyi, Women and Development: The Indian Experience, Subhada

Publishers, Pune, 1988.

Kunwar, Neelma, Role and Status of Women in Agricultural Development, Akankha,

New Delhi, 2006.

Mazumdar, Indrani, Women Workers and Globalisation: Emergent Contradictions in

India, Stree, Kolkata, 2007.

Nath, Madhuri, Rural Women Workforce in India, B.R. Pub., Delhi, 2003.

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Rajput, Pam and Swarup, Hemlata (ed.), Women and Globalization, Ashish Pub.

House, New Delhi, 1994.

Ramachandran,V. and Jandhyala,K.,Cartographies of Empowerment: A Mahila

Samakhyan Story Zubaan, New Delhi, 2012

Reddy, V Narayana et al (eds.), Women in Development: Challenges and

Achievements, Serials Pub., Delhi, 2005.

Rout, H.S., Human Development, A.P.H. Pub., New Delhi, 2009.

Sen,A., Development As Freedom, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014.

Singh, D.P., Women Workers in Unorganised Sector, Deep and Deep, New Delhi,

2005.

Singh, Gopal, et al (eds.) Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in India, RBSA

Pub., Jaipur, 2003.

Singhal, Tara, Working Women and Family, RBSA Pub., Jaipur, 2003.

Sinha, Udai Prakash, Sustainable Resource Development: Policy, problem and

prescription, Concept Publishing company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2011.

Swarup, Hemlata and Rajput, Pam, Gender Dimensions of Environmental and

Development Debate: The Indian Experience, in Stuart S. Nagel, (ed.), India’s

Development and Public Policy, Ashgate, Burlington, 2000.

Verma, S., Women’s Development: Policy and Administration, Adekh Publishers,

Jaipur, 1992.

Verma, S.B, Jiloka, S.K. and Kushwah, K.J, (eds.), Rural Women Empowerment, Cambridge

Univ Press, U.K, 2005.

Wee,V. amd Heyzer, N., Gender, Poverty and Sustainable Development, ENGENDER,

Centre for Environment, Gender and Development Pvt. Ltd, Singapore, 1995.

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Paper III: Women and Human Rights Time: 3 Hours

Objective: The purpose of the course is to develop the students understanding of human rights in

general and women’s human rights in particular. It seeks to expand the students understanding of

international human rights laws and their application in the national context. The programme of

study places emphasis on increasing understanding of the scope and limits of international

human rights law principles and institutions from a gender perspective.

Unit I Human Rights:

a) Concept, Typology and Evolution

b) Women’s human rights: Historical Background, Need and Principles of

Women’s Human Rights

c) Feminist Critique of the Rights Discourse including three generations of

Human rights

Unit II Promotion of Women’s Human Rights: International

A. UN and Women’s Human Rights

- International Bill of Rights

- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

Against Women (CEDAW) and Optional Protocol

- Women’s Rights in World Conferences:

i. Women’s human rights as a Critical Area of Concern in the

4th World Conference on Women

ii. Vienna Conference on Human Rights

B. Implementation Machinery: Human Rights Council, Commission on the

Status of Women and CEDAW Committee

Unit III Promotion of Women’s Human Rights: National

Constitutional Provisions, Role of National Human Rights Commission of India,

National Commission for Women (NCW), National Commission for the Child

Rights, POSCO Act

Unit IV Emerging Issues in Women’s Human Rights - II

• Violence Against Women as a violation of women’s human rights

• Women in Conflict situations: armed, Caste/Communal

• Reproductive Rights

• Right to Development

• Sexual Harassment at workplace.

• Migrant Women’s Rights

• Collective Rights

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assessment.








Essential Readings:

Bakshi, P.M., Constitution of India, Universal Law Pub., New Delhi, 2006.

Basu, D.D., Introduction to the Constitution of India, Wadhwa and Co. Agra, 2001.

Cook, Rebecca J., Human Rights of Women: National and International

Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania, Press, Philadelphia, 1994.

Jogdand, P.G., ed. 2013. Dalit Women: Issues and Perspectives. Gyan Publishing House, New

Delhi, 2013.

Nikki Van Der Gaag, The No-Nonsense Guide to Women’s Rights, Rawat Pub., New

Delhi, 2005

Peters, Julia and Wolper, Andrea, Women’s Rights: Human Rights, Routledge, New

York, 1995.

The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 1945 – 96, Deptt. of Public

Information, U.N., N.Y., 1996.

Further Readings:

Goonesekere, Savitiri (ed.), Violence, Law and Women’s Rights in South Asia, Sage, New

Delhi, 2004.

Kapoor, S.K., International Law and Human Rights, Central Law Pub., Allahabad, 2009.

Karmakar, Mahuya Roy. Conflict and Human Rights: Role of Women’s Organisations in

North East India (Manipur and Nagaland), Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2014.

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Khan, Sabira, Human Rights in India: Protection and Violation, Devika Pub., Delhi, 2004.

Krishna, Sumi, Women’s Livelihood Rights: Recasting Citizenship for Development, Sage,

New Delhi, 2007.

Narayan, R.S., Advancing Women and Human Rights, Indian Pub., Delhi, 2007.

Poonacha, Veena, Gender within the Human Rights Discourse, Research Centre for Women’s

Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay, 1995.

Sagade, J., Child Marriage in India : Socio-Legal and Human Rights Dimensions,

Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012.

Sinha,M.K., Implementations of Basic Human Rights, Lexis Nexis, Gurgaon, 2013.

Subramaniam, A., Shorelines: Space and Rights in South Asia, Yoda Press, New

Delhi,2013.

Tiwari, R.K., Introduction to Human Rights, Neeraj Publishing House, Delhi, 2011.

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Paper IV: Optional Paper

Option (i): Women and Management Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course has been developed to address the needs of students in management roles

or students who aspire to become managers. The course will introduce core skills such as project

management, strategic management, financial management and human resource management. It

will critically investigate the barriers to women achieving their full potential in management and

how these may be overcome. By offering a broad-based education in management skills and

helping to think critically and communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, the course will

provide the key elements which employers look for in their managers and will therefore enhance

career prospects, particularly within the public sector.

Unit I Principles and Models of Management: Theories and Principles, Process of

Women entering Management: Studying the Models for Women including,

Equity Model and Complimentary Contribution Model

Unit II Women as Managers: Study of the causal features in the emergence of Women

as Managers, including women’s higher educational attainments and changing

aspirations; barriers for women managers; Role Conflict, analysing synergetic

relationship among women and men managers. Effectiveness of women

managers, occupational sex segregation in professional work

Unit III Managerial Skills of Women: Project Design and Management, monitoring and

evaluation, Financial Management, Human Resource Management

Unit IV Women and Leadership: Study and Analysis of Women as Leaders including

Tokenism, Competence Leadership traits, Decision-Making, Power and Success,

and Pattern and Process of Leadership






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Essential Readings:

Adler, Nancy, J. and Dafna, N, Izraell, (eds.), Women in Management Worldwide, M. F.

Sharpe Inc, New York, 1989.

Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: Women in Management, ILO, Geneva, update 2004.

Cooper, Cary, L. and Davidson, Marilyn, Women in Management, Heinemann, 1984.

Henning, M., and Jar dim, A., The Managerial Women, Pan Books, London, 1977.

Powell, Gary N, Women and Men in Management, Sage Publication, New Delhi, 1988.

Further Readings:

Davidson, M. T and Cooper, C. L, Stress and the Women Manager, Martin Robertson,

Oxford, 1983.

Dwivedi, O.P., Managing Development in a Global Context, Palgrave, Hampshire, 2007.

Gordon, F., and Strober, M, (eds.), Bringing Women into Management, McGraw- Hill, New

York, 1975.

Tewari, H.C., Understanding Personality and Motives of Women Managers, UMI Research

Press, Michigan, 1980.

Paper IV- Option (ii): Women and Entrepreneurship Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course has been developed to enhance the understanding of the students

regarding women’s role in entrepreneurship with a focus on Indian women. The course will

introduce core skills such as project formulation, funding as well as policies and programmes for

entrepreneurship development and also critically investigate the motivation as well as the

barriers encountered by women aspiring to be successful entrepreneurs.

Unit I: Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur: Concept, Characteristics and Types;

Differentiation between Manager, Entrepreneur and Intrapreneur; Theories of

Entrepreneurship; Factors influencing growth of entrepreneurship.

Unit II: Women Entrepreneurs: Status of Women Entrepreneurs in India, Motivating

Factors, Internal and External barriers, Role conflict and Work perception, Case

studies of Successful Women Entrepreneurs: Lijjat Papad (SMGULP), Shahnaz

Hussain, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.

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Unit III: Government Policies and Programmes for Women Entrepreneurs:

Entrepreneurship Development Programme: Concept of EDP, Rationale,

Components, Agencies, EDP for Women and its effectiveness, Micro-credit and

Micro-finance for Women’s empowerment.

Unit IV: a) Concept of Micro-enterprises, Funding Agencies and Women

Entrepreneurship: Nationalised Banks, and Rural Banks,

b) National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development

(NIESBD),

c) Project Management: Features, Project identification, Formulation and

Appraisal, Funding and Marketing.






assessment.








Essential Readings:

Barua, Nayan and Borkakoty, Aparajeeta, Women Entrepreneurship, APH Pub. Corp., New

Delhi, 2005.

Mohal, S. and Elangovan, R., (ed.), Current Trends in Entrepreneurship, Deep and Deep,

New Delhi, 2006.

Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship (with Project Profiles), National Institute of

Industrial Research, Delhi, 2005.

Towards Equality: Report of the Committee on Status of Women in India, Ministry of

Education and Social Welfare, 1974.

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Further Readings:

Bamshali, S. G, Entrepreneurship Development, Himalayan Publishing House, New Delhi,

1987.

Desai, Vasant, Management of a Small Scale Industry, Himalaya Publishing House, 1982.

Developing New Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad,

1987.

Gupta, C. B., Entrepreneurial Development, Sultan Chand and Sons, New Delhi, 1992.

Finney, S., Ruth, Towards a Topology of Women Entrepreneurs: Their Business Venture

and Family, East West Centre, East West Technology and Development Institute, Hawaii, 1977.

Krishanaraj, Maitreyi, Towards Self- Reliance for Women: Some Urban Models, Popular

Prakashan, Bombay, 1990.

Krishanarah Matreyi, Women and Development: The Indian Experience, Subhada Publishers,

Pune, 1988.

Nagendra, P, Singh and Rita Sen Gupta, Potential Women Entrepreneurs, their Profile Vision

and Motivation: An Exploratory Study, NIESBUD Research Report Serial, 1985.

Patil, Asha and Mathu, Anuradha (ed.), Women and Entrepreneurship: Issues and

Challenges, Kalpaz Pub., Delhi, 2007.

Rao, D. Pulla, Women Entrepreneurs and Socio-Economic Development, Serials


Setty, E.D., and Krishnamoorthy, P., Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

Development, Anmol, New Delhi, 2007

Vasantuagopal, R., Women Entrepreneurship in India, New Century, New Delhi, 2008.

Option (iii) Training in Practical skills

Objectives: Women’s studies, by its very nature, cannot be confined to the ivory tower of

classrooms alone. Skill oriented training is an absolute necessity. This course aims to develop

various practical skills, so that the students can play an effective role in policy making and the

society, particularly at the grassroots.

This will include training in gender analysis and planning, advocacy and lobbying. It will

be evaluated on the basis of practical work done by the students, of which she/he will be required

to submit a written report.

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Option (iv): Women, Science and Technology Time: 3 Hours

Objectives: This course investigates the ways in which issues regarding science and technology

intersect with gender. It aims to understand the historical and contemporary interrelationships

among women, gender, science, and technology. Many kinds of questions can be asked about

gender and science: questions regarding the social context of science with respect to gender

issues; questions regarding the historical development of science and how the changing roles of

women in society have affected science; and questions regarding the epistemological and ethical

implications of these changing relationships. Likewise in the field of technology it examines

issues such as: What does a feminist analysis of information technology look like? How has

information technology affected women and girls? What role have women played in the

development of technology, and how has technological change affected the roles of women, and

the ideas of gender?

Unit I Women and Science

• Women’s Capacity of Science.

• Feminist Critique of Science.

• Women in Science: Women’s Career in Science, Scientific research,

Characteristic and problems

• Pipeline theory

Unit II Women’s Contribution to Science:

• Medicine

• Archaeology

• Biology

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Mathematics

Unit III Women and Technology: - A Historical perspective,

- Women as Inventory

- Household Technologies,

- New Reproductive Technologies,

- Technology as Masculine Culture and Impact of Technological Change on

Women

Unit IV Women and Information Communication Technology

• The Digital Divide: Definition Cause and Consequences

• Empowerment of women through ICT

• ICT’s & Women : Emerging Threats

• Implementation and mechanism for monitoring

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assessment.








Essential Readings:

Cooper, Joel, Weaver, Kimberlee D., Gender and Computers; Understanding the Digital

Divide, Taylor and Francis, 2003.

Fox, Mary Frank, Johnson, Deborah G. and Rosser, Sue V, (eds.), Women, Gender and

Technology, University of Illinois, 2006.

Grint, Keith and Gill, Rosalind (eds.), The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary

Theory and Research.

Harding, Sandra, The Science Question in Feminism, Cornell Univ., New York, 1986.

Kass-Simon, G., and Farnes, Patricia, Women of Science: Righting the Record, Indiana Univ.,

1993.

Lederman, Muriel and Bartsch, Ingrid, (eds.), The Gender and Science Reader, Routledge,

London, 2001.

Melhem, Samia, Morell, Claudine, Tandon, Nidhi, Information and Communication

Technologies for Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment, World Bank Working Paper No.

176, World Bank, 2009.

Ng, Cecilia and Mitter, Swasti, (eds.) Gender and the Digital Economy: Perspective from the

Developing World, Sage, New Delhi, 2005.

Rosser, Sue V. (ed.) Women, Science and Myth, ABC-CLIO Inc, California, 2008.

Suriya, M. and Balakrishnan, Gender Perspectives in Competing: An anthology, Kalpaz

Publications, Delhi, 2012.

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Schiebinger, Lenda, Has Feminism Changed Science? Harvard University Press, 1999.

Sonnert, Gerhard and Holton, Gerald, Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension,

Rutgers, New Jersey, 1995.

Steinber, Deborah Lynn, Feminist Approaches to Science, Medicine and Technology in Gill,

Kirkup et al, (eds.) The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, Routledge, London, 2000.

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Semester IV In this Semester there are two Compulsory and two Optional papers.

Compulsory Papers

Marks

Paper I Women and Politics 100

Paper II Women and Law- II 100

Optional Papers (Papers III & IV) 100 each (Candidate will be required to opt for two papers out of the following courses offered.)

(i) Women and Work

(ii) Women and Health

(iii) Women and Media

OR

Dissertation in lieu of two papers 200 marks

NOTE:



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Compulsory Papers

Paper I: Women and Politics

Time: 3 Hours

Objectives: The goal of the course is to create an understanding of women as emerging

political players in society- their participation as voters, as party activists, and as

candidates for elective office, strategies for gaining political power, the evolution of

policies that affect the political lives and opportunities of women, and the present

political status of women in India and South Asia.

Unit I

• Feminist Concepts of Power, Citizenship, Rights and Transformative

Politics

• Public vs Private Dichotomy

• Women’s Political Participation as a critical area of concern in

Beijing Platform for Action

• An overview of women in politics in South Asia with reference to

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) data

Unit II Women and Electoral Politics in India:

• Concept: Voting Behaviour, Factors effecting voting behaviour

• Women as Voters and Contestants

• Women in Parliament, State Legislatures and Council of Minister

• Obstacles to Women’s Entry into electoral politics

Unit III Political Parties and Women’s Question in India:

• Recruitment and Motivation,

• Case studies of prominent women leaders of political parties in

India: Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Benerjee,

Jayalalitha

• Women’s issues taken up by political parties: Congress, BJP,CPI,

CPI(M) and BSP

Unit IV Political Empowerment of Women:

a. Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies

i. Committees and Commissions on Women’s participation in PRI

ii. Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions (with special reference to

the 73rd

Constitutional Amendment)

iii. Women in Urban Local Bodies (With reference to the 74th

Constitutional Amendment).

b. Debate on reservation for women in Parliament and State Legislatures.

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assessment.








Essential Readings:

Abhilasha Kumari and Sabina Kidwai, Crossing the Sacred Line, Women’s Search for

Political Power, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1998.

Agnew, Vijay, Elite Women in Indian Politics, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi,

1997.

Catherine, A. Mackinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State, Harvard University

Press, Cambridge, 1989.

Chopra, J.K., Women in the Indian Parliament, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, 1993.

Chowdhury, Najma and Nelson, Barbara. J., Redefining Polities: Patterns of Women’s

Political Engagement from a Global Perspective in Nelson and Chowdhury (eds.),

Women and Politics Worldwide, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994.

Forbes, Geraldine, Indian Women and the Freedom Movement: A Historian’s

Perspective, RCWS Gender Series, Gender and Politics: Book 2, Research Centre for

Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s Studies, Mumbai, 1997.

Gill, Rajesh, Empowering Women through Panchayats- Stories of Success and

Struggle from India, Man and Development, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, December 2006, 83-

104.

Hettige,Siri, Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia, Sage Publication,

New Delhi, 2015.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane, Political Women, Basic Books, New York, 1974.

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Mazumdar, Vina (ed.), Symbols of Power: Studies on the Political Status of Women

in India, Allied, New Delhi, 1979.

Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India. December

1974, Govt of India, Deptt of Social Welfare, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, New

Delhi, 1975.

www.ipu.org

Further Readings:

Ahmed, Imtiaz, Women in Politics, in Devaki Jain (ed.) Indian Women, Publication

Division, New Delhi, 1975.

Baig, Tara Ali, India’s Women Power, Sultan Chand and Co., New Delhi, 1976.

Besant, Annie, The Political Status of Women, 2

nd Edition, Johnson’s Court, London, 1985.

Brush, Lisa D., Gender and Governance, Rawat, New Delhi, 2007.

Diatz, Merry, Contacts is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship in Chantal, Mouffe

(ed.), Dimensions of Radical Democracy, Verso, London, 1992.

Deshpande, A., Affirmative Action in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013

Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995, Country Report, Deptt. of Women

and Child Development, HRD, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1995.

Jain, D., (ed.) Women in Politics, John and Sons, New York, 1974.

Mathew, George, (ed.), Two decade of New Panchayati Raj in Karnataka: Issues,

options and reasons, Concept Publication, Comp. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2011.

Mehta, Usha M. and Billimoria, Rosebh, Political Status of Women in India, ICSSR,

New Delhi, 1986.

Menon,N.,(ed.), Themes in Politics: Gender and Politics in India, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi, 2014

Okin, Susan Mollar, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press,

Oxford, 1979.

Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women through Political Participation, Kalpaz Pub., Delhi,

2007.

Sultana, Ameer, Gender and Politics: Role Perception and Performance of Women

Legislators, Regal, New Delhi, 2014

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.Paper II: Women and Law- II Time: 3 Hours

Objective: The aim of this course is to develop the students understanding of the Constitutional

rights and also provide an analysis of the various laws particularly impacting women in India.

The emphasis of the course will be on critically examining the existing laws from a feminist

perspective and the loopholes therein and also to study the issues raised by the women’s

movement in India regarding these legislations.

Unit I Crime against Women and Law in India:

(i) Rape Laws (reference to Sec. 375 IPC) as amended in 2013

(ii) Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (as amended in 1984 and 1986)

(iii) Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

(iv) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971

(v) Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and

Prevention) Act, 1994 as amended in 2004

Unit II A. Provisions for Women under Labour Laws:

(i) Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

(ii) Maternity Benefit Act, 1961

(iii) Factories Act, 1948

(iv) Mines Act, 1952

B. Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prohibition and Redressal) Act,

2013.

Unit III Special Rights of Women:

A. Kinds of offences

Awareness regarding access to legal and judicial machinery:

Rights at the time of filing FIR

Rights in police stations

Rights in custody

Rights at the time of arrest

B. Public Interest Litigation and Legal Aid for Women in India

Family Courts

Unit IV A Brief Discussion on Contemporary Issues and Legal Provisions

- Trafficking in women

- Cyber crimes and legal provision with special reference to women

- NRI Marriages

(Note: The emphasis of the course will be on critically examining the existing laws

from the feminist perspective and loopholes therein.)

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assessment.








Essential Readings:

Ahuja, Ram, Crime against Women, Rawat, New Delhi, 1987.

Basu, Srimati (ed.) Dowry and Inheritance: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism,

Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2005.

Kapur, Ratna and Crossman, Brenda, Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in

India, Sage, New Delhi, 1996.

Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Domain: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women

and Law in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996.

Welchman, Lynn & Hossain, Sara (eds.), Honour: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence against

Women, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2005.

Relevant Bare Acts

Further Readings:

Crites, L. Lavra el., Women, The Court and Equality, Sage, New Delhi, 1987.

Ghosh, S. K., Women in Changing Society, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1984.

Gupta,R., Sexual Harassment at Workplace, Lexis Nexis, Gurgaon, 2014

Jayalakshmi, G., Dissolution of Hindu marriage in Transition: A quest for better future, The

Associated Publishers, Ambala City, 2011.

Khan,N.P., Child Rights and Law, University Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2013

Kishwar, Madhu, Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws, Sage, New Delhi, 2008.

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Mathew, P.D., The Law on Rape, Legal Education II, New Delhi, 1985.

Mishra, Preeti, Domestic Violence against Women: Legal Control and Judicial Response,

Deep and Deep, New Delhi, 2006.

Sathe, S.P., Transgressing Borders and Enforcing Limits, Oxford University Press, New

Delhi, 2013.

Shams, Shamusuddin, Women, Law and Social Change, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi,

1991.

Shenoy, M., Domestic Violence: Issues and Perspectives, Aavishkar Pub., Jaipur, 2007.

Special Issue on Sati, Seminar, 1987.

Swapna Mukhopadhyay, In the Name of Justice: Women and Law in Society, Manohar, New

Delhi, 1998.

T, Brettel, Dawson, (ed.), Women, Law and Social Change: Core Reading and Current

Issues, 2nd

ed., O N, Captus Press, New York, 1990.

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Optional Papers

Option (i): Women and Work Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course examines the entire concept of work, both paid and unpaid, changing

nature and patterns of women’s work, and the value of women’s work to society, with a special

focus on India. A central concern of the course is the problems encountered by women workers

and the effort made at various levels for women’s inclusion in the labour force as well as

alleviating their problems.

Unit I: Work:

• Changing definitions including concept of Housework

• Determinants of labour force entry

• Gender related choices of work and Gender Stereotypes

• Marginalisation of Women in Production Process

Unit II: Women workers by sector in India:

• Organised Sector : Services, Education and Industries

• Unorganised Sector: Agricultural Workers, Domestic Workers and Construction

Workers.

Unit III: Problems of Women workers:

• Wage Differentials

• Role Conflict

• Lack of Training/Skills

• Harassment at workplace

• Gender bias in recruitment

• Impact of liberalization, privatization and globalization on women

workers in organised and unorganised sector, including the impact of

technological change on women

• Women workers and Feminization of poverty

• Glass ceiling effect

Unit IV:

• Critical evaluation of Government Policies and programmes for

Women Workers in India

• Trade Unions and Issues of Women workers

• Issues of Women agricultural labourers and Peasant Organisations

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assessment.








Essential Readings:

Banerjee, Nirmala, Women Workers in the Unorganised Sector, Sangam Books,

Hyderabad, 1985.

Mazumdar, Vina, Women, Work and Employment: Struggle for a Policy, ICSSR,

New Delhi, 1983.

Powell, Gary N., (ed.) Handbook of Gender and Work, Sage Publications , New Delhi,

1996.

Report on Gender and Poverty in India, World Bank, Washington D.C., 1995.

Sarkar, Sidhartha, Gender, Work and Poverty, Serials Pub., New Delhi, 2007.

Soni, Balbir, Empowerment of Women Workers: The Unorganised Sector, Dominant

Pub., New Delhi, 2007.

Further Readings:

Chaudhary, Reena, Sexual Harassment: Threat to Working Women, Deep and Deep

Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2011.

Dash, Gyanindra, Rural Employment and Economic Development, Regal, Delhi,

2009.

Delant, Jacqueline, Gender in the Work Place: A Case Study Approach, Sage, New

Delhi, 1999.

Ganesamurthy, V.S., Women in the Indian Economy, New Century, New Delhi, 2008.

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Mitra, Savara, Changing Trends in Women’s Employment, Himalaya, New Delhi, 1986.

Rajput, Pam and Swarup, H.L., (ed.), Women and Globalization, Ashish Publications,

New Delhi, 1994.

Rao, S.V.Ramani, Women at Work in India, Vol. 2, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1994.

Reskin, B., & Padavic, I., Women and Men at Work, Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks,

1994.

Sahai, Sumita and Srivastava, M. (ed.) , Globalization and Gender, Rawat Publications,

Jaipur, 2011.

Singh, M. Andrea and Kelles, Anita (ed.), Invisible Hands – Women in Home Based

Production, Sage, New Delhi, 1987.

Singh, D.P., Women Workers in Unorganised Sector, Deep & Deep Publications Pvt.

Ltd., New Delhi, 2005.

Yadav, Ravi Prakash, Kumar, Chandradeep and Barsa, Women Workers in India, New

Century Publications, New Delhi, 2012.

Option (ii): Women and Health Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course will introduce students to gender as a theoretical concept and a category

of analysis in Public health — that is, the way gender has contributed to differentially structuring

women and men’s experiences of health. The course aims to answer such questions as:

• How has gender influenced the construction of Public health in diverse societies?

• How do our social frameworks and structures, such as gender, affect people’s experiences

and expectations of health?

Unit I Conceptualising Health:

• Definition: Health, Public Health and Women’s Health

• Health as a human right of women

• Status of women’s health in India

Unit II Critical Issues in Women’s health:

• Sexual and Reproductive health (including HIV and

STD’s)

• Mental health

• Occupational health

• Environmental health

• Family planning

• Impact of violence on women’s health

Unit III Health Care Policies and Services:

• Women’s access to health care services

• National Health Policy of India

• National Population Policy

• Reproductive and Child Health Programme

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Unit IV: International Perspectives on Health:

• Health as a Critical Area of concern in the Beijing

Platform for Action

• Women’s health at ICPD, Cairo

• WHO and gender mainstreaming of health

• MDG’s and SDGs and women’s health.






assessment.








Essential Readings:

Gopalan, C., The Role of Women in a New Health Order, CWDS, New Delhi, 1990.

Misra, Rajiv Chatterjee, Rachel; Rao, Sujata, India Health Report, Oxford, New Delhi, 2003.

Sahu, Skylab, Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, Sage Publication, New Delhi, 2015

Turshen, Meredith, Women’s Health Movements: a Global Force for Change, Palgrave,

Hampshire, 2007.

WHO, Women and Occupational Health Risks, 1983.

WHO, Women in Health and Development in South East Asia, 1985

Department of Gender and Women’s Health, Engendering the Millennium Development

Goals on Women’s Health, WHO, 2003.

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Further Readings:

Hirway, Indira, Denial of Maternity Benefits to Women Workers, Oxford, New Delhi, 1986.

Koenig, Michael A., Reproductive Health in India, Rawat, Jaipur, 2008

Kumar, Ram, Women, Health, Development and Administration, Deep and Deep, New Delhi,

1990.

Mahadevan, K. Women and Population Dynamics, Sage, New Delhi, 1989.

Naidu, Usha, and Parasuraman, S., Health Situation of Youth in India, TISS, Bombay, 1982.

Pujari, Premlata and Kaushik,Vijay Kumari, Health Systems for Women’s Development, Vol.

2, Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi, 1994.

Sinha, Archana, Reproductive Rights and Women Empowerment, Mahaveer and Sons, New

Delhi, 2009.

WHO, Gender Equality, Work and Health: A Review of the Evidence, 2006.

WHO, Gender, Health and Poverty, 2000.

WHO, Regional Strategy on Human Resources for Health, 2006-2015, 2007.

Option (iii): Women and Media Time: 3 Hours

Objective: This course aims at examining the way in which media- both visual and print- has

treated gender, and the extent to which it has been able to disseminate the “truth” or capture the

“real lives” of women in the economic and social sphere. At the same time, it seeks to create

awareness in the students about the various laws for media regulation enacted from time to time.

Unit 1 : Women and the Communication Perspective:

• Definition, nature and process of communication

• Overview of the media industry in India

• Select theories of communication with reference to gender perception and

projection: Cultivation Theory, Symbolic Annihilation Theory, Uses and

Gratifications Theory, Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Modeling Theory, Catharsis

Theory and Dramatism Theory

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Unit II : Women and Print Media :

• Tackling of the ‘woman question’ as an event and/or issue in print media; select

journalists and editors

• The female narrative in popular literature: select novels (The Binding Vine, Difficult

Daughters, Lajja) and authors (Shashi Deshpande, Manju Kapur, Taslima Nasrin)

Unit III : Women and Audio-Visual Media:

• Exploring the gendered space in: select women-centric TV programmes and films.

• Select actors, directors and producers: Nadia Hunterwali, Shabana Azmi; Farah

Khan, Deepa Mehta; Ekta Kapoor

Unit IV : Women, Ethics and Law:

• Ethics: Guidelines for Journalistic Conduct, programming and advertising codes

(only specific sections pertaining to female representation) as laid down by the Press

Council of India, the News Broadcasters Association, the Prasar Bharti Corporation

and the Advertising Standards Council of India

• Laws: Law of Obscenity (Sec 292-293 of the IPC), Law of Defamation (Sec 499-

502 of the IPC), Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986;

pertinent sections of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995,

Cinematograph Act, 1952 and Information Technology Act, 2000






assessment.








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Essential Readings

• Bathla, Sonia. (1998). ‘Women, Democracy and the Media: Cultural and Political

Representations in the Indian Press’, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.

• Creedon, P.J. (Ed.). (1993). ‘Women in Mass Communication’ (2nd ed.). Newbury Park,

CA: Sage.

• Giles, Judy & Tim Middleton. (1999). ‘Studying Culture: a practical introduction’. Blackwell

Publishers, Oxford.

• Joseph, Ammu. (2000). ‘Women in Journalism: Making News,’ Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.

• Kumar, Nirmal, Brave New Bollywood, Sage Publication, New Delh, 2015

• Lont, Cynthia M. (1995). Women and Media: Content/ Careers/ Criticism, Wadsworth

Publishing Co., Belmont, CA.

• Wood, Julia T. (1999). ‘Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender and Culture’, Wadsworth

Publishing Co., Belmont, CA.

Further Reading

• Balasubrahmanyan, Vimal. (1998). ‘Mirror Image: The Media and the Women's Question’.

Centre for Education and Documentation, Mumbai.

• Douglas, Susan J. (1995). ‘Where the girls are: Growing up female with the mass media’.

New York: Random House.

• Joseph, Ammu & Kalpana Sharma. (Eds.). (1994). ‘Whose News? The Media and Women's

Issues’. Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.

• Kosambi, Meera. (Ed.). (1994). ‘Women's oppression in the public gaze: an analysis of

newspaper coverage, state action and activist response’. Research Center for Women's

University, Mumbai.

• Krishnan, Prabha & Anita Dighe. (1990). ‘Affirmation and Denial: Construction of Feminity

on Indian Television’. Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.

• Pande, Mrinal. (1990). ‘The subject is woman’. Sanchar Publishing House, New Delhi

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Option (iv) Dissertation worth 200 marks in lieu of two papers.

The students will be required to take up a small empirical study in which

they will be required to submit a written report of about 70-75 pages.

The framework of the Report shall be as follows:

• Title Page containing name of project, name of candidate and name of

supervisor,

• Table of contents,

• Introductory Chapter consisting of statement of the problem, review

of literature (minimum of 7 books/ articles), Research Questions/

hypothesis, Objectives and Methodology,

• 2-3 main chapters,

• Concluding chapter presenting the conclusions arrived at from the

study,

• Select Bibliography,

• Annexure.

Note for Evaluation: The candidate will be assessed for 150 marks on the basis

of the written report and for 50 marks on the basis of a viva voce examination.

The written Project Report submitted by the students shall be evaluated by one

faculty member nominated by the Academic Committee in consultation with

the supervisor.

A viva-voce for 50 marks shall be conducted by a Board of Examiners which

shall include:

- The faculty member nominated by the Academic Committee,

- Chairperson,

- Supervisor/s.

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