• Eligibility :
  Graduate degree
   

• Course Description
  This Course (10 credits) includes five papers of 50 marks (2 credits each) each. For each paper, there will be internal evaluation for 25 marks and the external evaluation for 25 marks. Each paper consists of 30 hours of teaching. In addition to these there will be special workshops, films and visits as part of the course.

• Total marks for evaluation are 250.

• Passing marks: 40%

• Medium of Instruction of the Course: English and Marathi

• Objectives
  This Course aims to do the following:
  
  It seeks to sensitize the participants on the ‘woman question’ and raise consciousness among them to address gender issues in their-
  
  everyday lives
  academic pursuit and
  career plans.
  
  It intends to engage participants in the following:

• Understanding critically the basic concepts in Women’s Studies

• Mapping historically the women’s movements in India

• Analyzing major issues in the fields of development and culture from gender perspective

• Paper I: Basic Concepts in Women’s Studies
  
  Module I
  What is Women’s Studies? Its Emergence, Growth and Significance
  
  Module II
  Gender: Symbols, Norms, Institutions, Masculinities/ Femininities
  
  Module III
  Patriarchy: Ideology and Practices
  
  Module IV
  Feminism: Concept and Relevance
  
  Module V
  Gender as an Axis of Stratification and its Relation to other Axes of Stratification (Caste, Class, Community and Ethnicity)
   

• Paper II: Introduction to Women’s Movement in India
  
  Module I
  Emergence of Woman’s Question in Colonial India
  
  Module II
  Woman’s Question in the Nationalist, Anti- Caste, Working Class and Peasant Movements
  
  Module III
  Women Writing in Colonial India
  
  Module IV
  Women’s Movement in the Post- Independence Period: Campaigns and Issues
  
  Module V
  Rise of NGOs and Micro- Credit Groups
   

• Paper III: Women and Development
  
  Module I
  Statistical Profile of Women in India: Issues of Labour, Health, Violence and Education
  
  Module II
  State Policies, Reports and Programmes for Women, UN Conferences
  
  Module III
  Perspectives on Development: WID, WAD, GAD, Sustainable Development
  
  Module IV
  Women, Work and Livelihood
  
  Module V
  Women and Politics: A Special Focus on Panchayat Raj Institutions
  
  Module VI
  Women and Law: Major Constitutional Provisions and Laws
   

• Paper IV: Women, Culture and Media
  
  Module I
  Women and Culture: Representation, Ideology, Hegemony, Counter Culture and Alternative Media
  
  Module II
  Women’s Writings and Writings on Women, Gender and Oral Traditions
  
  Module III
  Representations of Gender in Television and Cinema
  
  Module IV
  Representations of Gender in Print Media
  
  Module V
  Gender and Alternative Media
   

• Paper V: Introduction to Field Work and Extension
  
  Module I
  Drawing up a Proposal
  
  Module II
  Basic Methods: Observation, Questionnaire and Interview (Gender in the Field)
  
  Module III
  Report Writing
  
  Module IV
  Developing Campaigns: A Special Focus on Legal, Media, Anti Caste Campaigns
  
  Module V
  Field Work

Recommended Readings:

Paper I: Basic Concepts in Women’s Studies

• Robinson, V and Richardson (eds.), Introducing Women’s Studies, Hound Mills, Macmillan Press, 1993.

• Geetha V., Patriarchy, Kolkata, Stree, 2008.

• Geetha V., Gender, Kolkata, Stree, 2002.

• Bhasin K. and N. Khan, Some Questions about Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1986.

• Chakravarty U., Gendering Caste, Kolkata, Stree, 2006.

Paper II: Introduction to Women’s Movement in India

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

• Chaudhari M., Indian Women’s Movement: Reform and Revival, New Delhi, Radiant, 1993.

• Tharu S, and K Lalitha, Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present), New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991.

• Gandhi N and N. Shah, Issues at Stake, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1992.

• Chacko S., Changing the Stream, Mumbai, CED, 2001.

Paper III: Women and Development

• Towards Equality – The Unfinished Agenda – Status of Women in India, National Commission for Women, Government of India, 2002

• Kapadia K. (Ed.), Violence of Development: The Politics of Identity, Gender and Social Inequalities in India, New Delhi, Zubaan, 2002.

• Sen G. and Grown. C, Development, Crises and Alternative/Visions. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1987.

• Patel, V. Et al (Eds.), Women in Politics: Forms and Processes. New Delhi, Friedich Ebert Stifftung, 1987.

• Agnes F., State, Gender and the Rhetoric of Law Reform. Bombay, SNDT, 1995.

Paper IV: Women, Culture and Media

• Niranjana T and V. Dhareshwar (Eds), Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India, Calcutta, Seagull, 1993.

• Sangari K. and S. Vaid, Woman and Culture, Bombay, SNDT, 1981.

• Mankekar P., Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: Television, Womanhood and Nation in Modern India, New Delhi, 2005.

• Sharma K. Joseph A. (Eds.), Whose News?: the Media and Women’s Issues, New Delhi, Sage, 2006.

• Virdi J., The Cinematic ImagiNation: Indian Popular Films as Social History. Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Paper V: Introduction to Field Work and Extension

• Clough, P and C, Nutbrown, Students Guide to Methodology, London, Sage, 2002.

• Denzin, N and Lincoln. S (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, Macmillan, 2002.