DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES

GAUHATI UNIVERSITY

SYLLABUS
FOR POST GRADUATE COURSE IN
WOMEN’S STUDIES
UNDER CBCS
GAUHATI UNIVERSITY

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 SYLLABUS FOR
POST GRADUATE COURSE IN WOMEN’S STUDIES UNDER CBCS
DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
GAUHATI UNIVERSITY

Course Structure

Core/Elective
Course
Semester /Optional/ Course Title Credits Marks
Code*
Value Added

Introduction to Women’s
WOM1016 Core 6 100
Studies

WOM1026 Core Feminist Theory-I 6 100

I WOM1036 Core Women's Movement-I 6 100

WOM1046 Core Women in Indian Society 6 100

Concepts in Feminism
WOM1054 Value Added 4 -

WOM2016 Core Feminist Theory-II 6 100

WOM2026 Core Women’s Movement-II 6 100

Eco-feminism, Environment
II WOM2036 Core
and Sustainable Development
6 100

Feminist Economics
WOM2046 Core 6 100

WOM2054 Value Added Gender and Development 4 -

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 Course Core/Elective
Semester Course Title Credits Marks
Code /Optional

WOM3016 Core Research Methodology 6 100

WOM3026 Core Women, Science and Technology 6 100

WOM3036 Elective Engendering Governance

ANY ONE

Elective Women and Work

III WOM3046 6 100

Elective Women’s Rights and Legal

WOM3056
advocacy

WOM3066 Open Gender and Violence 6 100

WOM3074 Value Added Academic Writing 4 -

Course Core/Elective
Semester Course Title Credits Marks
Code /Optional

WOM4016 Core Women, Health and Rights 6 100

WOM4026 Core Dissertation 6 100

WOM4036 Elective Women in North-East India

ANY ONE

WOM4046 Elective Gender and Education

IV 6
100
Elective Gender, State and Citizenship
WOM4056

WOM4066 Elective Women and Literature

WOM4076 Open Gender and Geography 6 100

Value
WOM4084 Added Professional Skill Development 4

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 TOTAL 112 1600

Note:
1. The first three words indicates the subject, the first digit indicates the semester, the next
two the course number and the fourth the credit per week the course carries
2. There will be four courses per semester plus a non-graded Value Added Course

Programme Specific Outcome – M. A. in Women’s Studies:

PSO 1: Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts, issues, debates and the theoretical
aspects of Women’s Studies

PSO 2: Examine how knowledge is constructed and deployed in existing knowledge system
and explore feminist intervention by applying critical thinking

PSO 3: Create interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and intersectional understanding of

various knowledge and social norms while shaping the identity of women, their oppression
and emancipation

PSO 4: Analyse the established theories, analytic concepts and methodology of various
disciplines by bringing women’s perspective in them

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 FIRST SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM 1016: Introduction to Women’s Studies
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) End
Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOME:

CO 1: Describe Women’s Studies as an academic discipline

CO 2: Identify issues and approaches of Women’s Studies.
CO 3: Illustrate the institutionalisation of Women’s Studies.
CO 4: Analyse the debates associated with Women’s Studies.
CO 5: Compare the challenges and prospects of Women’s Studies from global to local

UNIT I: WOMEN’S STUDIES AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

A. Definition, Nature, Scope, Origin and History
B. Women Studies Perspective
C. Issues and Approaches
D. Gender consciousness and feminist consciousness
E. Women’s Studies and Gender Studies

 Contribution to Women’s Studies: 1, Building A Curriculam, Compliled by JotsnaSanjanwala,

Research Centre For Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s, Bombay
 Narratives from the Women’s Studies Family, Recreating Knowledge edited by Devaki Jain and
Pam Rajput, Sage, 2003. Pp: 17-31.
 Making Sense of Women’s Life, An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Michele Plott and
LauriUmansky (Editors), “The Necessity of Women’s Studies in a Liberal Arts Education” by Jean
Fox O’ Barr,Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2000. pp 1-5
 An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Gender in a Transnational World 2nd Edition, by
InderpalGrewal and Caren Kaplan, McGraw-Hill NY, 2006. Pp xx-xxvi
 Making Sense of Women’s Life, An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Michele Plott and
LauriUmansky (Editors), Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2000. pp 6-8
 Making Sense of Women’s Life, An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Michele Plott and
LauriUmansky (Editors), “Women Studies: Issues and Approaches” by Catharine R. Stimpson ,
Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2000. pp 10-16
 Making Sense of Women’s Life, An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Michele Plott and
LauriUmansky (Editors), “Fear of Feminism: Why Young Women Get the Willies” by Lisa
marieHogeland, Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2000. pp 17-21

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UNIT II: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF WOMEN’S STUDIES:
A. Study of Women prior to institutionalization and later in the West.
B. From research to teaching: In the Indian context,

 Between a Rock and a Hard Place or Just Another Cell in the Beehive? Helen Crowley, 1999.
www.palgrave-journals.com ›
 Narratives from the Women’s Studies Family, Recreating Knowledge edited by Devaki Jain and Pam
Rajput, Sage, 2003. Pp: 44-77.
 Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Edited by Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008. pp: 1-19
 From Accommodation to Articulation: Women’s Movement in India by Neera Desai in Women’s
Studies in India, A Reader, Edited by Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008. pp: 23-27

UNIT III: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

A. Narratives from the Women’s Studies Programmes: Integration and Autonomy Debate,
Question of Ideology and Production of Knowledge
B. Interdisciplinarity: Problems and Potentials
C. Women’s Studies: The Indian Experience
D. Women Studies in the North East

 Narratives from the Women’s Studies Family, Recreating Knowledge edited by Devaki Jain and
Pam Rajput, Sage, 2003.
 Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran, Routledge Taylor &Francis, 2007. Pg: 1-14, 102-113.
 Feminism in India: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism edited by MaitrayeeChoudhuri,
Women Unlimited and Kali for Women, 2011, pg 52-68

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 FIRST SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM 1026: Feminist Theory- I
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessionals (5+5); Written Submission (10) End Semester Examination (80 marks)
.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe feminism and it’s unfolding

CO 2: Demonstrate the chronology of theoretical positions of feminism
CO 3: Explain the different schools of feminist thought and key figures of these theoretical traditions
CO 4: Illustrate the issues that paramount each theoretical positions of feminism
CO 5: Appraise the contributions of feminist theory as well as assess its shortcomings

UNIT I- FOUNDATIONAL CONCERNS: THEORY, FEMINIST THEORY

AND EPISTEMOLOGY
A. Theory: Meaning, Nature and Characteristics
B. The Distinctiveness of Feminist Theory
C. Asking questions about Theory Building: Feminist Epistemology
a. Feminist Empiricism
b. Feminist Standpoint Theory

 Bhargav, Rajeev. 2008. ‘What is Political Theory?’ in Rajeev Bhargav and Ashok Acharya (Eds.)
Political Theory: An Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 5-12
 Gross, Elizabeth. 1992. ‘What is Feminist Theory?’ in Helen Crowley and Susan Himmelweil (Eds.)
Knowing Women: Feminism and Knowledge, Polity Press, pp. 355-369
 Elizabeth Ermarth, 2000. What Counts as Feminist Theory?Feminist Theory, Vol. 1.pp.13-118.

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  Lorraine Code, 2007 ‘Feminist Epistemologies and Women’s Lives’ in Linda Martín Alcoff and Eva
FederKittay (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Malden: Blackwell Publishers. Pp.
211- 234.
 Leckenby, Denis 2007 ‘Feminist Empiricism: Gender Bias and “Setting the Record Straight” in
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy (Eds.) Feminist Research Practice, California:
Sage Publication, pp. 27- 52.
 Brooks, Abigail 2007 ‘Feminist
Standpoint Epistemology: Building Knowledge and Empowerment Through Women’s Lived
Experience’ in Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy (Eds.) Feminist Research Practice,
California: Sage Publication, pp. 53- 82.

UNIT II- THE FIRST WAVE OF FEMINISM

A. Enlightenment: Idea of Rationality and the Plea for Equality; Critique of ‘masculinist’
rationality
B. Liberal Feminism of the First Wave: Principles; Analysis of Women’s Subordination
and Agenda for Social Change; Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and J.S. Mill
C. Classical Marxist Feminism: Principles; Analysis of Women’s Subordination and
Agenda for Social Change; Writings of Friedrich Engels and Clara Zetkin

 Michael Losonsky, 2001. ‘Introduction’ in Enlightenment and Action: From Descartes to Kant.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., pp. 19-29
 Ramazanoglu, Caroline and Holland, Janet. 2002. ‘Reason, Science And Progress: Feminism’s
Enlightenment Inheritance’ in Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices, London: Sage
Publications, pp.23-40
 Jaggar, Alison. 1983. ‘The Politics of Liberal Feminism’ in Feminist Politics and Human Nature,
Sussex: Rowland and Allenfield. Pp. 173-206.
 Tong, Rosemarie. 2009. ‘Liberal Feminism’ in Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive
Introduction, Philadelphia: Westview Press. Pp. 11-47
 Jaggar, Alison. 1983. ‘The Politics of Traditional Marxism’ in Feminist Politics and Human Nature,
Sussex: Rowland and Allenfield. Pp. 208-247.

UNIT III-THE SECOND WAVE OF FEMINISM

A. Liberal component: Distinctiveness from the first wave liberal feminism; Betty
Friedan and ‘the problem with no name’
B. Radical component: Historical Backdrop; Principles; Analysis of Women’s
Subordination and Agenda for Social Change; Writings of ShielaRowbowtham, Kate
Millet, and Mary Daly.
C. Contemporary Socialist Feminism: Principles; Analysis of Women’s Subordination
and Agenda for Social Change; Writings of Iris Marion Young
D. The Ethics of Care: Valorizing Women’s Difference; Principles of Maternal
Citizenship; and Writings of Carol Gilligan and Sara Ruddick

 Tong, Rosemarie. 2009. ‘Liberal Feminism’ in Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive

Introduction, Philadelphia: Westview Press
 Whelehan, Imelda. 1995, ‘Liberal Feminism: The Origins Of The Second Wave’ In Modern Feminist
Thought: From The Second Wave To ‘Post Feminism’, Edinburg: Edinburg University Press. Pp.25-43
 Jaggar, Alison. 1983. ‘Radical Feminism and Human Nature’ and ‘The Politics of Radical Feminism’
in Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Sussex: Rowland and Allenfield. Pp.83-122, pp. 249-302.
 Tong, Rosemarie. 2009. ‘Radical Feminism: Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives’ in Feminist
Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Philadelphia: Westview Press.pp.48-95.
 Whelehan, Imelda. 1995, ‘Radical Feminism: Redefining Politics’ In Modern Feminist Thought: From
The Second Wave To ‘Post Feminism’, Edinburg: Edinburg University Press. Pp. 67-87.

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 Jaggar, Alison. 1983. ‘Socialist Feminism and Human Nature’ and ‘The Politics of Socialist
Feminism’in Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Sussex: Rowland and Allenfield, pp. 123-167, pp.
303-350.
 Tong, Rosemarie. 2009. ‘Care Focused Feminism’ in Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive
Introduction, Philadelphia: Westview Press. Pp. 163-199.

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 FIRST SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM 1036: Women’s Movements-I
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Internal Evaluation (IA) including presentations and Tutorials - 20 marks, and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Identify the trajectory and the history of the women’s movement in the west.
CO 2: Outline the cross-cultural analysis of women’s uprisings in the global context.
CO 3: Sketch the resurgence of feminism
CO 4: Analyse the cross-cultural experiences of women in movements across the globe.
CO 5: Infer the feminist paradigms emerging from women’s movements

UNIT I: CLAIMING RIGHTS, BECOMING CITIZENS

A. Enlightenment and Modernity. The Rights of Man and the Women’s Question.
B. The Seneca Falls Convention 1848- Beginning of the Women’s Movement in the West.
C. Anti-slavery campaigns to Civil Rights Movements. Black Women’s Movement in USA.
D. The Suffragist Movement- Split and divisions

 Jane Abray, Feminism in the French Revolution; The American Historical Review,
Vol. 80, No. 1 (Feb., 1975), pp. 43-62
 Asserting Women’s Legal and Political equality: Equal Rights Movements in Europe
in the book A History of their Own: Women in Europe Vol III By Bonnie S. Anderson
and Judith Zinset, Harper & Row, NY 1988
 Sally G. McMillen Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement,
OUP 2008

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  Ryan, Barbara, Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social
Movement , London : Routledge. 1992
 Valerie Bryson, Feminist Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan 2003
 Antoinette Burton Thinking beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism and the
Domains of History, Social History, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 60-71
 Kumari Jayawardena Feminism in the Third World Introduction Chapter
 Holly J. McCammon, Karen E. Campbell, Ellen M. Granberg and Christine Mowery
How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women's
SuffrageMovements,1866 to 1919. American Sociological Review, Vol. 66, No. 1
(Feb., 2001), pp. 49-70
 Sue Davis, The Political Thought Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women’s Rights And
The American Political Traditions Chapter 2
 Barbara Winslow Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality (Chapter 10) In
the Book A Companion to Gender History Edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E.
Wiesner-Hanks
 The Meaning of Seneca Falls (Chapter 4) in Gerda Lerner Living With History
Making Social Change
 Josephine Donovan Feminist Theory:The Intellectual Traditions (Third Edition) The
Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., New York. 2006
 Christine Bolt Sisterhood Questioned? Race Class and Internationalism in the
American and British Women’s Movement, c. 1880s-1970s. Routledge. 2004.
 Jean H. Baker ed. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited, OUP 2002

UNIT II: WORKING-CLASS WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND ANTI

COLONIAL STRUGGLES
A. Industrialisation and Women’s Work
B. Socialist Feminists and the Struggles of Women Workers
C. Mobilisation and Collectivisation of Women in the Workplace (with special reference to
China)
D. Anti-Colonialism, Modernisation and Women’s question in the colonies
 The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern
America. By Dorothy Sue Cobble. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
 Women and the Labour Movement by Alice Henry New York: G.H. Doran Co., 1923.
 Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance Harriot Stanton Blatch and
the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894–1909 [chapter 10] in Woman
Suffrage and
 Women’s Rights by Ellen Carol DuBois. New York University Press 1998
 Feminist Socialism in Europe [Chapter 4] in the book A History of their Own: Women
in Europe Vol III By Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith Zinset, Harper & Row, NY
1988
 The Effects of Industrialization on American Women's Roles in Society by Gloria A.
Keith,
 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
 The Socialist Movement of Women Workers in Different Countries [Chapter 1] in
the Monograph Alexandra Kollontai Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights.
Translated from Russian by Celia Britton, Falling Well Press, Bristol, 1971

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  Clara Zetkin: A Socialist Approach to the Problem of Woman's Oppression by Karen
Honeycutt, Journal article- Feminist Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Spring - Summer,
1976), pp. 131-144
 Sex Versus Class in Two British Trade Unions in the Early Twentieth Century by
Cathy Hunt
 Journal of Women's History, Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 86-110
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
 Women’s liberation in China by Claudie Broyelle, Humanties Press Inc., 1977
 Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor [Chapter 11] in the book
Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China by Kay Ann Johnson, The
University of Chicago Press. 1983. Chicago and London

UNIT III: THE RESURGENCE OF FEMINISM

A. Challenging ‘Patriarchy’: The Women’s Liberation Movement
B. The Feminist Revolution: Right to Abortion; ‘Take back the night marches’; ERA
C. Ideological divisions and splits within the Women’s Movement

 Angela Miles The Integrative Feminine Principle In North American Feminist

Radicalism: Value Basis of a New Feminism Women's Studies Int. Quart., Vol. 4, No.
4, pp. 481-495, 1981.
 Siegel, Deborah, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
 Becky Thompson Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave
Feminism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Second Wave Feminism in the United
States (Summer, 2002), pp. 336-360
 David M. Heer and Amyra Grossbard-Shechtman The Impact of the Female
Marriage Squeeze and the Contraceptive Revolution on Sex Roles and the Women's
Liberation Movement in the United States, 1960 to 1975 Journal of Marriage and
Family, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Feb., 1981), pp. 49-65
 Myra Marx Ferree Shamus Khan Shauna A. Morimoto Assessing the feminist
revolution: The presence and absence of gender in theory and practice in Craig
Calhoun (ed), 2006. History of Sociology in America: ASA Centennial Volume.
University of Chicago Press
 Barbara Ryan Ideological Purity and Feminism: The U.S. Women's Movement from
1966 to 1975. Gender and Society, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 239-257
 Ryan, Barbara, Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in
Social Movement , London : Routledge. 1992. [Chapter 4] Ideological
Purity:Divisions, splits and Thrashing
 Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement Organization And Activism In The
Abortion Conflict 1991. Oxford University Press, Inc.
 Dorothy Mcbride Stetson Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the
Democratic State:A Comparative Study of State Feminism. OUP 2001
 Rosalyn Baxandall. Re-Visioning the Women's Liberation Movement's Narrative:
Early Second Wave AfricanAmerican Feminists. Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1
(Spring, 2001), pp. 225-245
 Silvia Federici.The Unfinished Feminist Revolution downloaded from

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UNIT IV: CROSS CULTURAL COMPARISONS

A. Western and Asian Experiences

 Diane Rothard Margolis, Women’s Movement around the World: Cross Cultural
Comparisons. Gender and Society, Vol.7, No. 3. (Sep. 1993), pp. 379-399
 Pamela Paxton, Melanie M. Hughes and Jennifer L. Green The International
Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003. American
Sociological Review, Vol. 71, No. 6 (Dec., 2006), pp. 898-920
 Antrobus, Peggy, The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies,
London: Zed Books, 2004.
 Morgan, Robin, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement
Anthology Feminist Press, 1996
 Roces, M and Edwards, Louise, Women’s Movement in Asia, London and New York:
Routledge, 2010.

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 FIRST SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM1046: Women in Indian Society
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A. Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional (5x2=10) marks + Seminar Presentation (10) marks=20marks (total) , and End
Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the agents of socialisation and social construction of gender in Indian Society
CO 2: Identify the socio-cultural and economic traditions and practices of gender roles in Indian
society
CO 3: Interrelate women and social institutions of Indian society
CO 4: Analyse the changing position of women in Indian society
CO 5: Argue the contemporary debates associated with women in Indian society

UNIT I: SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER

A. Social Construction of Gender: Sex and Gender, Nature versus Culture, Equality versus
Difference, Gender Roles, Gender stereotyping.
B. Socialization: Stages of Socialisation, Agents of Socialization, Theories of Socialization
C. Role of Culture and Religion: women as repositories of cultural practices and traditions,
Sexual division of labour, Public-Private Dichotomy, Religious conceptualisation of women,
Sex-selective abortion and the ‘Missing’ Indian women.
D. Re-socialization: changing content and context of gender

 Dubey, S,M., Bordoloi, P.K. & Borthakur, B. N (1980). Family Marriage and Social Change
on the Indian Fringe. New Delhi : Cosmos Publication
 Kosambi, Meera. (1993). At the intersection of Gender Reform and Religious Belief. RCWS
Gender Series, SNDT Women’s University

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  Rege, Sharmila. (2003). Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological
Knowledge. New Delhi : Sage
 Reincourt, Amaury de. (1989).Women and Power in History. New Delhi : Sterling Publishers
Private Limited.
 Subbbamma, Malladi. (1985) Women, Tradition & Culture . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers
Private Limited.

UNIT II: WOMEN AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

A. Kinship: Kinship terminologies, Matrilineal vs Patrineal System
B. Family: Joint and Nuclear, Position of women in family
C. Marriage: Types of marriages in India, Dowry vs Bride price, Property Rights
D. Class/Caste: hierarchy, difference and mobility

 Baruah, S.L. (Ed). (1992). Status of Women in Assam: with special reference to Non-Tribal
Societies. New Delhi : Omsons Publications.
 Beteille, Andre. (1996) Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a
Tanjore Village. Delhi : Oxford University Press.
 Bhai, Nirmala, Harijan, P. (1986) Women In Independent India. New Delhi : B.R. Publishing
Corporation
 Chaudry, Prem. (1994). The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana.
New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
 Debi, Renu. (1994). Women of Assam. New Delhi : Omsons Publications.
 Dubey, S,M. , Bordoloi, P.K. & Borthakur B. N . (1980). Family Marriage and Social
Change on the Indian Fringe. New Delhi : Cosmos Publication,
 Ghurye, GS. (1961). Caste, Class and Occupation. Bombay : Popular Book Depot.
 Kapadia, K.M. (1980). Marriage and Family in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
 Mahajan, Amarjit, Madhurima. (1995). Family Violence and Abuse in India. New Delhi :
Deep and Deep Publication,
 Medhi, Kunja (Ed). (1996). Status of Women & Social Change. Women’s Studies Research
Centre Gauhati University.
 Mohanty, Manoranjan (Ed). (2004). Class, Caste, Gender: Readings in Indian Government
and Politics. New Delhi : Sage Publication.
 Nongbri, Tiplut. (2008). Gender Matriliny and Entrepreneurship- The Khasis of North East
India. New Delhi : Zubaan.
 Sharma, Usha. (2005). Marriage in Indian Society: From Tradition to Modernity. New Delhi
: Mittal Publication.
 Srinivas, M N. (2002). Village, Caste, Gender and Methods: Essays in Indian Social
Anthropology. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
 Uberoi, Petricia. (1993). Family, Kinship and Marriage in India. New Delhi : Oxford
University Press.

UNIT III: CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA

A. Women in Ancient India
B. Women in Pre-Colonial India: Issues and perspectives
C. Women in Colonial India: Women’s participation in the freedom movement, women’s
organization, women’s question in colonial period
D. Women in Post-Colonial India: Towards Equality Report, Sharamshakti Report

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  Altekar, A.S. (2005). The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization: From Prehistoric Times
to Present Days. Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass.
 Desai, Neera & Thakkar, Usha. (2009) Women in Indian Society. New Delhi : National Book
Trust.
 Desai, Neera & Krishnaraj. (1987). Women and Society in India. Delhi : Ajanta Publications.
 Forbes, Geraldine. (1999) Women in Modern India. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
 Gupta, Kamala. (1956). Social Status of Hindu Women in Northern India (1206-1707 A.D ).
New Delhi : Inter-India Publications.
 Kumar, Radha. (1993). History of Doing. New Delhi : Zubaan
 Liddle Jianna, Joshi Rama. (1986). Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste and Class in
India. New Delhi : Kali for Women.
 Pernau, Margrit, Ahmed, Imtiaz & Reifeld, Helmut (Eds). (2003). Family and Gender:
Changing values in Germany and India . New Delhi : Sage.
 Memsahib’s writings
 Mitter, Dwarka, Nath.(2006). The Position of Women in Hindu Law. New Delhi : Cosmos
Publication.
 Nanda, B.R. (1990). Indian Women: From Purdah to Modernity. New Delhi: Radiant
Publishers
 National Perspective Plan for Women. 1988-2000, Department of Women and Child
Development
 Nayak, Sushila & Mankekar, Kamla. (2002) Women’s Pioneers- In India’s Renaissance. New
Delhi : National Book Trust
 Roy, Kumkum. (1999). Women in early Indian societies. Delhi : Manohar Publishers and
Distributers.
 Sangari, Kumkum & Vaid Sudesh (Eds). (1989). Recasting Women: Essays in Indian
Colonial History. New Delhi : Kali for Women.
 Tanwar, Reicha. (1998). Women, Human Rights, Religion and Violence. Kurukshetra :
Nirmal Book Agency.
 Towards Equality Report
 Walsh, E. Julith. (2004). Domesticity in Colonial India. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.

UNIT IV: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES

A. Indian women: Identity and Illusion
B. Language, Representation and Issues of marginalised women.
C. Violence, victimhood and agency
D. Empowerment

 Barnett, Ola, Miller-Perrin, Cindy, L, Perrin, Robin D. (2005). Family Violence across the
Lifespan,: An Introduction. Second Edition. New Delhi : Sage Publication.
 Bhavnani, Kum Kum, Foran, John & Kurian, Priya. (2003). Feminist Futures. London : Zed
Books.
 Chatterjee, Partha & Jeganathan, Pradeep (Ed). (2000). Community, Gender and Violence,
Subaltern Studies XI. New Delhi : Permanent Black.
 Jacobson, Doranne & Wadley, S. Susan. (1986). Women in India: Two Perspectives. Delhi :
Manohar
 Jacob, K.K. (1989). Social Policy in India. Udaipur : Himanshu Publications.
 Jeffreys, Sheila. (2005). Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West.
Oxfordshire: Routeledge
 Misra, Geetanjali & Chandiramani Radhika. (2005). Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring
Theory and Practice in South and South East Asia, New Delhi : Sage Publications.
 Moser, Caroline O.N. & Clark, Fiona, C. (Ed).(2001). Victims, Perpetrators or Actors. Delhi :
Kali For Women

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 Mukhia , Banani. (2002). Women’s Images, Men’s Imagination . Delhi : Manohar.
 Narayan, Deepa. (2005). Measuring Empowerment. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
 Pandey, Divya. (1995). Empowerment of Women Participatory Action Research Approach.
Bombay : Research Centre For Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University
 Purushothaman, Sangeetha. (1998). The Empowerment of Women in India. New Delhi : Sage
Publications.
 Renjetti, Claire M., Edleson Jeffrey L. & Bergen Raquel Kennedy. (2011). Sourcebook on
Violence against Women. Thousand Oaks: Sage publications.
 Subbbamma, Malladi. (1985). Women, Tradition & Culture. Delhi : Sterling Publishers
Private Limited
 Sudhir, H. & Hajarimayum, J. (2005). Violence against Women in North-East India. New
Delhi : Akansha Publishing House
 Tanwar, Reicha. (1998). Women, Human Rights, Religion and Violence. Kurukshetra :
Nirmal Book Agency.
 Thapan, Meenakshi. (2009). Living with Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in
Contemporary India. New Delhi : Sage Publication

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 FIRST SEMESTER: VALUE ADDED PAPER
WOM1054: Concepts in Feminism
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A. Value Added Paper.
Credit: 4.

Evaluation: On the basis of their interactions/participation/involvement in the class activities

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe key issues of gender and women’s studies

CO 2: Demonstrate the questions and debates in feminist scholarship
CO 3: Recognize the negative stereotypes associated with ‘Feminism’
CO 4: Apply learning, critical reading and engaging in practical application of the concepts
CO 5: Use feminist concepts to analyse existing content in popular media

UNIT- I- CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS

A. Sex and Gender
B. Patriarchy
C. Gender Equality
D. Sexual Differences
 Bhasin, Kamala, Understanding Gender, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2000
 Bhasin, Kamla. 1993. What is Patriarchy? India. Kali for Women
 Geetha, V., Gender, Stree, Kolkata, 2002, pp 38-51.
 Lerner, Gerda, Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford University Press, London, 1986.
 Ortner, Sherry, ‘The Problem of “Women” as an Analytic Category’ in Making
Gender, Beacon Press, Boston, 1996
 Choudhury, Maitrayee, Feminism in India, Zed Books, London, 2004.
 Kimmel, Michael S. 2000. The Gendered Society, 1st Edition. New York,
Oxford: OUP.
 Oakley, Ann. 1997. “A Brief History of Gender”, in Ann Oakley and Juliet
Mitchell (eds.), Who’s Afraid of Feminism. New York: The New Press.

UNIT- II- GENDER AND SEXUALITY

A. Femininities and Masculinities
B. Normative Sexuality
C. Questioning the binaries: Public vs Private, Culture vs Nature
D. Gaze
E. Body

 Menon, Nivedita, Introduction, Sexualities: Issues in Contemporary Indian

Feminism, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2007.

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  Menon, Nivedita, Seeing Like a Feminist
 Foucault, Michel. 1990 [1978]. The History of Sexuality. vol. I: An Introduction,
(trans.), Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books.
 Nead, Lynda, Myths of Sexuality, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988.
 Beauvoir, Simone de. 1988 [1949]. The Second Sex, trans., H.M. Parshley.
London: Picador.
 Humm, Maggie, ed., Feminisms: a Reader, Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York,
1992
 Millet, Kate, Sexual Politics, Ballantine Books, New York, 1970.

UNIT-III
A. Gender and Society
B. Sexual Division of Labour
C. Marriage and the Family
D. Political Economy of Gender
 Nirmala Banerjee and Devika Jain (eds.) 1985. Tyranny of the Household:
investigative Essays on Women’s Work. New Delhi: Shakti Books.
 Uberoi, Patricia. 2006. Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular
Culture in India. New Delhi. OUP
 Engels, Friedrich, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State,
1884. For Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1993,
1999, 2000.
 Gary S Becker A Treatise on the Family, Harvard University Press. 1993

UNIT-IV – PRACTICAL/ FIELD WORK

A. Using gender concepts for analyzing different materials- Films, texts, advertisements, Newspaper
clippings etc

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 SECOND SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WS 2016 Feminist Theory-II
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A. Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessionals (5+5); Written Submission (10) , and End Semester Examination (80
marks)
.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Demonstrate the chronology of theoretical positions of feminism

CO 2: Explain the concerns of feminist thought in contemporary times
CO 3: Classify and categorize the issues that are paramount to these theoretical positions of
feminism
CO 4: Compare the multiplicity of voices within feminism
CO 5: Appraise the contributions of feminist theory as well as assess its shortcoming


UNIT I-: THE MULTIPLICITY OF VOICES WITHIN FEMINISM:

‘WOMAN’ Vs. WOMEN
A. Intersectionality as a Methodological Challenge
B. Black Feminism.
C. Islamic Feminism
D. Post-Colonial Feminism
E. Third World Feminism

 Nira Yuval-Davis, 2006. ‘Intersectionality and Feminist Politics’, European Journal of

Women’s Studies, Vol. 13(3): 193–209
 Naomi Zack, ‘Can Third Wave Feminism Be Inclusive? Intersectionality, Its Problems And
New Directions’ In Linda Martin Alcoff And Eva FederKittay (Eds.) The Blackwell Guide To
Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell Publishing, 2007

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  Kimberle Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist
Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics’, University
of Chicago Legal Forum (1989): 139-167.
 bell hooks, ‘Black Women: Shaping Feminist Thought’ in in Philomena Essed, David Theo
Goldberg And Audrey Kobayashi (Eds.) A Companion To Gender Studies, Blackwell
Publishing, 2005.
 Valentine M. Moghadam, ‘Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the
Debate’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2002, vol. 27, no. 4
 Sara Mills, ‘Post-Colonial Feminist Theory’ In Stevi Jackson And Jackie Jones (Eds.)
Contemporary Feminism Theories, Edinburg University Press, 1998.
 Leela Gandhi, ‘Postcolonialism and Feminism’ In Elizabeth Hackett and Sally Haslanger
(Eds.) Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2006.
 Cheryl Johnson Odim, ‘Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World Women And
Feminism’ In Chandra TalpadeMohanty, Ann Russo And Lourdes Torres (Eds.) Third World
Women And The Politics Of Feminism, Indiana University Press, 1991.
 Chandra TalpadeMohanty, ‘Introduction- Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women
and The Politics of Feminism’ in Chandra TalpadeMohanty, Ann Russo And Lourdes Torres
(Eds.) Third World Women And The Politics of Feminism, Indiana University Press, 1991
 Chela Sandoval, ‘US Third World Feminism: The Theory And Method Of Oppositional
Consciousness In The Post Modern World’ In Reina Lewis And Sara Mills (Eds.) Feminist
Post Colonial Theory: A Reader, Edinburg University Press, 2003

UNIT II- DECONSTRUCTING FEMINISM

A. Feminism and Postmodernism: Collaboration and Contestations

B. The Post-Structuralist Turn: Foucauldian paradigm and Feminist theory

 Gurpreet Mahajan. 1995. ‘Reconsidering Postmodernism: What is New in the Old Lamp’ in
Economic and Political Weekly, January 28, pp. 45-52
 Imelda Whelehan. 1995, ‘Feminism, Postmodernism and Theoretical Developments’ in Modern
Feminist Thought: From The Second Wave To ‘Post Feminism’, Edinburg: Edinburg University
Press, pp. 194-215.
 Mary M. Talbot, ‘Feminism and Language’ in Sarah Gamble (Ed.) The Routledge Critical Dictionary of
Feminism and Post- Feminism, Routledge, 1999.
 Tong, Rosemarie. 2009. ‘Postmodern and Third Wave Feminism’ in Feminist Thought: A More
Comprehensive Introduction, Philadelphia: Westview Press. 

UNIT-III- CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS

A. Difference: Shift to Gender.

B. Masculinities
C. The Sexual Subaltern and Theoretical Advancements:
i) Gay/ Lesbian
ii) Transgender
iii) Queer

 Judith Lorber, Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement, Feminist
Theory 2000 1: 79
 John Beynon, 2002. ‘What is Masculinity?’ Masculinities and Culture, Philadelphia: Open
University Press.

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 Michael S. Kimmel, 2006.‘The Masculine Mystique’, Manhood in America: A Cultural
History, New York: Oxford University Press.
 Jeffrey Weeks, ‘The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies’ in Theo Sandfortetal. (eds.)
Lesbian and Gay Studies: An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach. pp. 1-13.
 Edward Davies, 2004. ‘Finding Ourselves: Postmodern Identities and the Transgender
Movement’, in Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford (Eds.) Third Wave
Feminism: A Critical Exploration, Basingstok: Palgrave Macmillan.
 Noreen Giffney, ‘Denormatizing Queer Theory: More Than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay
Studies’, Feminist Theory 2004 5: 73
 Linda Garber, 2006. ‘On the Evolution of Queer Studies: Lesbian Feminism, Queer Theory
and Globalization’ in Diane Richardson, Janice McLaughlin and Mark E. Casey (Eds.)
Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory, Basingstok: Palgrave Macmillan.

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 SECOND SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM2026: Women’s Movements- II

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6

Evaluation: Internal Evaluation (IA) including presentations and Tutorials - 20 marks, and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Outline the history of the Women’s Movement in India

CO 2: Locate the ‘women’s question’ in the colonial period of India
CO 3: Discuss the re-birth of the women’s movement and challenges in post-colonial India
CO 4: Illustrate the contemporary women’s movement in India
CO 5: Assess the impact of globalization, militarization and political representation of women in
India

UNIT I: ‘THE WOMEN’S QUESTION’ IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD

A. The Social Reform Movement
B. The Nationalist Movement and Women’s Participation: Feminist Critique of the
Nationalist Movement
C. Gandhi and Women
D. Feminist Nationalism in Assam

 Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, Chapter 1 Reform in the Nineteenth Century:
Efforts to Modernise Women’s Roles.
 Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, Chapter 5 Women in the Nationalist Movement
 Lata Mani Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
 Leela Kasturi and Vina Mazumdar, Women and Indian Nationalism
 Madhu Kishwar, Gandhi on Women, EPW, 20, nos 40- 41, October 5 and 12, 1985;
 Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments, Chapter Six- The Nation and its Women and
Chapter seven- Women and the Nation
 Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan Signposts
 S L Baruah Status of Women in Assam. Omsons Publications. New Delhi. 1992

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  Samita Sen Toward a Feminist Politics? The Indian Women’s Movement in Historical
Perspective The World Bank Policy Research Report on Gender and Development:
Engendering Development Background paper on the women’s movement as a contribution to:
Contesting Patriarchy Women’s Organizations, Civil Society and Grassroots Change in India.
 Sangari, Kumkum, Vaid, Sudesh , Introduction, Recasting Women: Essays in Indian
Colonial History, Rutgers University Press, 1990
 Sarkar, Sumit , Sarkar, Tanika , Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader,
Indiana University Press, 2008
 Sarkar, Sumit , Sarkar, Tanika Hindu Wife Hindu Nation
 Shiela Bora, Emergence of Feminism and Feminist Nationalism in Assam- Role of Chandra
Prabha Saikia and the Asom Pradeshik Mahiula Samiti (1926-47) :North East India History
Association, Shillong 2013
 Sujata Patel, Gandhi Construction and Reconstruction of Women, EPW, February 20, 1988.

UNIT II: THE RE-BIRTH OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:

CHALLENGES WITHIN
A. Women and the Developmental state
B. The Towards Equality Report
C. Working Women’s Movement: The rise of AIDWA; the anti- price rise movement:
SEWA
D. Dalit Women’s Movement

 Dietrich, Gabriele, Reflections on the Women's Movement in India: religion, ecology, development,
Horizon India Books, 1992
 John, Mary E., Women’s Studies in India: A Reader, Penguin, New Delhi, 2008.
 Khullar, Mala , Writing the Women's Movement: A Reader, Zubaan, 2005
 Kumud Sharma (Ed) Changing the Terms of the Discourse: Gender Equality and the Indian State
Pearson Publications
 Kumud Sharma, C.P. Sujaya (Ed) Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India Pearson
Publications
 Maitrayee Chaudhuri (ed.) Feminism In India Kali for Women, 2004
 Mary John Reframing Globalisation: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement EPW March 7, 2009 vol
xliv no 10
 Menon, Nivedita, Gender and politics in India, Oxford University Press, 2002
 Nirmala Banerjee Whatever Happened to the Dreams of Modernity? The Nehruvian Era and Woman’s
Position Economic and Political Weekly April 25, 1998
 Nirmale Banerjee, Samita Sen and Nandita Dhawan, Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in
Contemporary India Vol I & II Stree 2011
 Sharmila Rege Writing Caste, Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonials. Zubaan.
2006

UNIT III: ‘AUTONOMOUS’ WOMEN’S GROUPS: THE CHANGING

TRAJECTORY
A. The Personal is political: Raising voice against Violence
B. NGOisation and ‘Professional Feminism’
C. The Hindu Right and the ‘Indian’ Women
D. Revisiting the State- Women’s Movements relations

 Flavia Agnes Women's Movement within a Secular Framework: Redefining the Agenda. Economic and
Political Weekly,Vol. 29, No. 19 (May 7, 1994), pp. 1123-1128

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  Henrik Berglund PhD (2011) Hindu Nationalism and Gender in the Indian Civil Society, International
Feminist Journal of Politics, 13:1, 83-99
 Leela Kasturi Development, Patriarchy, and Politics: Indian Women in the
 Lotika Sarkar Constitutional Guarantees:The Unequal Sex CWDS Occasional papers
 Maithreyi Krishnaraj Challenges before Women's Movement in a Changing Context Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 38, No. 43 (Oct. 25-31, 2003), pp. 4536-4545
 Political Process, 1947-1992. CWDS Occasional papers
 Srila Roy Politics, Passion and Professionalization in Contemporary Indian Feminism 2011 45: 587
Sociology
 Sujata Gothoskar, Vithubai Patel, Vibuti Patel and Carol Wolkowitz Documents from the Indian
Women's Movement Feminist Review, No. 12 (1982), pp. 92-103
 Supriya Akerkar Theory and Practice of Women's Movement in India: A Discourse Analysis Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 17 (Apr. 29, 1995), pp. WS2-WS23
 Tanika Sarkar Pragmatics of the Hindu Right: Politics of Women's Organisations Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 34, No. 31 (Jul. 31 - Aug. 6, 1999), pp. 2159-2167
 Tanika Sarkar The Woman as Communal Subject: Rashtrasevika Samiti and Ram Janmabhoomi
Movement Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 35 (August 31, 1991), pp. 2057-2062

UNIT IV: ISSUES IN THE INDIAN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:

A. Globalisation, Representation in Representative Institutions, The Uniform Civil Code,
Militarism, Sexual violence, Sexuality

 Ghosh, Anindita, Behind the Veil, Resistance, Women and the Everyday in South Asia, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008
 Jyoti Puri, Woman, body, desire in post-colonial India: narratives of gender and sexuality 1999
Routledge
 Mary E. John Alternate Modernities? Reservations and Women's Movement in 20th Century India
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 35, No. 43/44 (Oct. 21 - Nov. 3, 2000), pp. 3822- 3829
 Nandita Gandhi, Geetanjali Gangoli, Nandita Shah Drafting Gender Just Laws Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol. 31, No. 43 (Oct. 26, 1996), pp. 2858-2860
 Nivedita Menon Elusive ‘Woman’: Feminism and Women’s Reservation Bill Economic and Political
Weekly October 28, 2000
 Nivedita Menon Sexualities (Volume 5 of Issues in Contemporary Indian feminism) Publisher Women
Unlimited an associate of Kali for Women, 2007
 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Women between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform
Civil Code Debates in India Social Text, 65 (Volume 18 Number 24) Winter 2000. Pp- 55-82
 Vasanth Kannabiran Kalpana Kannabiran From Social Action to Political Action Women and the 81st
Amendment Economic and Political Weekly February 1, 1997

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 SECOND SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM2036: Eco-Feminism, Environment and Sustainable
Development

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) , and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Identify the roots of eco-feminism

CO 2: Describe the genesis of environmental movements in the global and local context
CO 3: Associate the changing relations of men, women and nature
CO 4: Analyse the use of technologies and their impacts on women and nature
CO 5: Critique gender and environmental rights and practices

UNIT 1: ECO-FEMINISM: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

A. Ecological History: Roots of Eco-feminism.
B. Environmental Movements: Genesis of Global Environment Movement, the Environmental
Resolution, Major Environmental Movements in Indian context.

 Ecology: Principles and Applications, 2nd Edition by J. L. Chapman and M.J. Reiss, Cambridge
University Press, pg-1-3.
 Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Rawat Publication, 2010. pg 13-20
 Environmental Science by S. C. Santra, New Central Book Agency (P) Ltd. Calcutta, 2001, Chapter 59
(Environmental Movement), Pg: 821-830.

UNIT II: CHANGING RELATIONS

A. Man, Women and Nature

B. Changing Representation of Women and Nature; West and India.
C. Natural Resources and Gender Issues
D. Critique of Technology: Industrialization, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering,

 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENAGRLIVSOUBOOK/Resources/Module10.pdf

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  Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, The Myth of Catching-up Development by Maria
Mies, Rawat Publication, 2010. Pg: 55-69.
 Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Women’s Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity
Conservation, by Vandana Shiva Rawat Publication, 2010, Pg: 164-173.
 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi (1988)
Chapter 2 (Science, Nature and Gender-for Unit II.B), Chapter 3 (Women in Nature-for Unit II.A).
Pg: 14-54.

UNIT III: GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT IN PRACTICE.

A. Land rights for women; gender, poverty and land.

B. Water rights; drinking water, water for irrigation, watershed development.
C. Forest access, tribal rights, joint forest management.
 A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, by BinaAgarwal, Chapter 7.
“Whose land? Who Commands? The gap between ownership and control.” Cambridge University
Press, 2008. Pg: 292-315.
 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi (1988)
Chapter 2 (Science, Nature and Gender-for Unit II.B), Chapter 4, 6. Pg 55-94, 179-217.

UNIT IV: ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENTS.

A. Visions and practices

B. Critique of Eco-feminism.
 Environmental Studies by Anindita Basak, Pearson, 2009. Chapter 6. Social Issues and the
Environment, Pg: 181-208.
 A Critique of Ecofeminism by Anne Archambault, Canadian Woman Studies, Volume 13, Number 3.
1993. Pg: 19-23.
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/10403/9492

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 SECOND SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM2046: Feminist Economics

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) , and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe feminist economics and its scope

CO 2: Demonstrate women's role and contributions in various economic sectors, the effects on
women's life and the structure of gender relations
CO 3: Explain economic theories from feminist perspective.
CO 4: Analyse engendering of the planning process
CO 5: Assess economic empowerment through strategies, policies and programs

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST ECONOMICS

A. Definition, Nature and Scope of Feminist Economics
B. The Economics of the Household
C. Gender Development Indicators and Critiques: HDI, GDI, GEI

 ‘Economics, Policy Analysis and Feminism’, by R M Blank and C W Reimers.

 ‘Gary Becker’s Contribution to Family and Household Economics’, by Robert A Pollak,
Washington University in St Louis, November 2002.
 ‘Feminism, Objectivity and Economics’, by Julia Nelson, Routledge, 1996.
 Human Development Reports, Various Issues, UNDP.
 ‘Inequality and Difference: The Social Construction of Gender’, by Merina Islam,
International Journal of Humanities and Religion, ISSN 2319-5630.
 ‘The Feminist Challenge to Neo Classical Economics’, by Frances R Woolley, Cambridge
Journal of Economics, December 1993.

UNIT II: ENGENDERING ECONOMIC THEORY

A. Basic Concepts: Theories of Value and Distribution, Rationality, Consumption, Production,
Distribution, Exchange, Externalities (Production and Consumption).

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 B. Market and Non Market Economies: Importance of Non Market Economies in Feminist
Economics
C. Human Capital Theory: Importance of Human Capital, Sources of Differences in Human
Capital, Discrimination Theories.
D. Macro Economics through the Gender Lens: Challenging the Gender Biases of Macro
Economic Policies.

 ‘Embedding Care and Unpaid Work in Macro Economic Modelling: A Structuralist

Approach, by E Braunstein, Staveren, Tavani
 ‘Glossary of Macro Economics from a Gender Perspective’, by Patrica Alexander, Bridge
Development, Report No 48.
 ‘Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics’ by Julia Nelson, May 2005,
Working Paper No 05-04, Global Development and Environment Institute.
 ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Labour Markets and Enterprise
Development, by Prof Naila Kabeer, SIG Working Paper 2012/1.

UNIT III: WOMEN IN THE PLANNING PROCESS

A. Engendering the Planning Process
B. Women Component Plan.
C. Gender Budgeting: Concept, Definition, Strategies, 5-step Framework
D. Tools of Gender Budgeting

 ‘Approach to Twelfth Five Year Plan: Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth’,
Planning Commission, Government of India, 2011.
 ‘Engendering the Eleventh Five Year Plan: Removing Obstacles, Creating Opportunities’,
National Alliance of Women, March 2008.
 ‘Engendering Public Policy: A Report on the Work of the Working Group of Feminist
Economics During the Preparation of the Eleventh Five Year Plan’, Planning Commission,
Government of India, May 2010.
 ‘Evaluation of UN’s Women Work on Gender Responsive Budgeting in India’, United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, July 2012.
 ‘Gender Budgeting Handbook for Governments of India and Ministries’, Ministry of Women
and Child Development, Government of India, 2007.
 ‘Report of the Working Group on Employment, Planning and Policy for the Twelfth Five
Year Plan (2012-2017)’, Government of India, Labour, Employment & Manpower (LEM)
Division, Planning Commission, December 2011.
 ‘Women’s Empowerment through Genmder Budgeting: A review in Indian Context’, by B
Sugana Reddy, e-journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Sciences, ISSN 0975-5942.

UNIT IV: ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

A. Economic Empowerment of Women: Strategies, Policies and Programmes
B. Micro Finance and Self Help Groups: Their Role in Economic Empowerment

 ‘Gender Equality and Economic Empowerment of Women’, by Margaret A McLare, D

Gearge and W Cornell.
 ‘Role of Micro Finance in Empowerment of Female Population of Bahawalpur District’,
bySara Noreen, 2011 International Conference on Economics and Finance Research, IPEDR
Vol 4, 2011.
 ‘Women Empowerment through Self Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh, India’, by Kappa
Kondal, International Research Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 3(1), 13-16, January 2014.
 ‘Women Empowerment through Micro Finance: A Boon for Development’, by Tiwas Biswas,
National Institute of Technology, Durgapu

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 SECOND SEMESTER: VALUE ADDED PAPER
WOM2054: Gender and Development

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Value Added Paper.
Credit: 4.

Evaluation: On the basis of their interaction/participation/involvement in the class activities

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the approaches to development from gender perspective

CO 2: Demonstrate visibility of women in development discourses
CO 3: Compare approaches in gender and development
CO 4: Analyse the tools of Gender and Development and their applications
CO 5: Critique economic doctrines by disclosing their sociological and political premises

UNIT I: UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT

A. Approaches to Development: Development as economic growth, Development as
modernisation, Capabilities model
B. Critique of Development: Marxist perspective, Dependency Theory
C. The Concept of Sustainable Development

 Rist, Gilbert. The History of Development. London: Zed, 2008. Pp. 8 – 46
 Joe Remenyi ‘What is Development?’ in Damien Kingsbury etal. (Eds.) 2004, Key Issues in
Development. New York Palgrave Macmilan. , pp. 22-44
 John McKay ‘Reassessing Development Theory: ‘Modernisation’ and Beyond’ in Damien
Kingsbury etal. (Eds.) 2004, Key Issues in Development. New York Palgrave Macmilan. Pp.
45-66
 Sengupta, A. (2001). ‘Right to Development as a Human Right’ in Economic & Political
Weekly, 36(27), pp. 2527-2536.
 Jennifer A. Elliott. 2006. What is Sustainable Development? In An Introduction to
Sustainable Development. New York: Routledge. pp. 7-43

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  Dennis Conway and Nikolas Heynen. 2002. ‘Dependency theories: From ECLA to Andre
Gunder Frank and beyond’ in Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter (Eds.) The Companion to
Development Studies. New York: Routledge. Pp. 177-182
 Thomas Klak. 2002. World-systems theory: Core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions in
Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter (Eds.) The Companion to Development Studies. New
York: Routledge. Pp. 191-198
 Capability Approach. 2006. in David Alexander Clark (Ed.) The Elgar Companion to
Development Studies. Glosgow: Edward Elgar Publishin.pp. 32-44

UNIT II: MAKING WOMEN VISIBLE IN DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE

A. Female Labour Force participation: Statistics and Trends
B. Hidden contribution of women towards the economy: Care and Domestic work,
Women in the informal sector
C. Strategies to make women visible: Gender statistics, Gender budgeting, Gender
strategies during policy making

 Sher Verick. Women’s labour force participation in India: Why is it so low?

 Gender differences in employment and why they matter, in World Development Report
2012 pp. 198-253
 Chapter 2 ‘Transforming Work For Women’s Rights’ In Progress Of The World’s Women
2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights. UNwomen. Pp. 62-121
 Statistics relating to the informal economy in women and men in the informal economy: a
statistical picture. Geneva: ILO. Pp. 7-22
 Nancy Folbre. 2006. Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, And The Care Economy.
Journal Of Human Development vol. 7, no. 2, July.
 Natasha Choudhary etal. 2009. Women’s Economic Contribution through Their Unpaid
Household Work: The Case of India, Nagpur: ESAF and HealthBridge
 What are Gender Statistics, available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/What-
are-gender-stats.ashx
 Mainstreaming a gender perspective in Statistics available at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Production-of-gender-statistics.ashx
 Implications of gender mainstreaming in statistics in organizational level available at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Production-of-gender-statistics.ashx
 ‘Concept and Definition of Gender Budgeting’ in Gender Budgeting Handbook for
Government of India Ministries and Departments, Ministry of Women and Child
Development. 2007. pp. 3-9
 ‘How to do Gender Budgeting?’ in Sheila Quinn, 2009. Gender Budgeting: Practical
Implementation. Council of Europe. pp. 10-36
 Effective strategies for promoting gender equality, OECD

UNIT III: APPROACHES IN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (WID-

WAD-GAD)
A. Women in Development: Impact of modernisation theory and Liberal Feminism
B. Women and Development: The radical intervention
C. Gender and Development: The Socialist Feminist intervention, Tools of GAD analysis

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 M. Patricia Connelly. 2000. Feminism and Development : Theoretical Perspectives In Jane L.
Parpart etal. (Eds.)Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development. Ottawa: IDRC. Pp.
51-160
 Shahrashoub Razavi Carol Miller. 1995. ‘From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the
Women and Development Discourse’. United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development United Nations Development Programme

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 THIRD SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM3016 Research Methodology

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation:: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) ,

and End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the basic and essential knowledge of research

CO 2: Describe feminist research methodology
CO 3: Explain the research process and the various steps involved, from selection of the problem to
report writing.
CO 4: Utilise quantitative and qualitative research methodology in social science research
CO 5: Construct research methodology for research projects

UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH.

A. Meaning and Definition of research
B. Characteristics, Aims of Research
C. Types, Application and Objectives of Research
D. Methods of data collection: Collecting data from primary and secondary sources

 Research Methods by Ram Ahuja, Rawat Publications, 2012. Pg: 15-32

 Research Methodology: A Step by Step Guide for Beginners (Second Edition) by Ranjit
Kumar, Pearson, 2005. Pg: 1-13
 Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques (Third edition) By C. R. Kothari New Age
International,

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UNIT II: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH:
A. Meaning and characteristics of Qualitative Research
B. Sampling : Concept, Principles, Types of sampling
C. Scaling: Meaning, Classification bases, Techniques
D. Research Process: the steps involved
E. Mixed method: Concept, Designing mixed method research, Problems and prospects

 Research Methodology: A Step by Step Guide for Beginners (Second Edition) by Ranjit
Kumar, Pearson, 2005. Pg: 15-113
 Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques (Third edition) By C. R. Kothari New
Age International, 2014. Pg:

UNIT III: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.

A. Meaning and Approaches of qualitative research
B. Methods of data collection: In-depth interview, oral history, focus group interviews,
ethnography, content analysis, cases study and mixed method
C. Analysis and interpretation: data preparation phase; data exploration and data
reduction phase; interpretation

The Practise of Qualitative Research (Second Edition) by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-

Biber Patricia Leavy

UNIT IV: FEMINIST RESEARCH

A. Meaning, Characteristic and Significance of Feminist Research
B. Feminist empiricism: critiquing
C. Feminist standpoint: objectivity vs subjectivity
D. Feminist epistemology

Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (edi) Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Michelle L.
Yaiser, Women’s Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology by Dorothy E. Smith. Oxford
University Press, 2004. Pg: 27-38.
Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (edi) Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Michelle L.
Yaiser, Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology : “What is Strong Objectivity”? by Sandra Harding.
Oxford University Press, 2004. Pg: 39-63.
Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (edi) Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Michelle L.
Yaiser, A Feminist Epistemology by Joey Sprague and Diane Kobrynowicz, Oxford University
Press, 2004. Pg: 78-100.

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 THIRD SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM3026: Women, Science and Technology

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessionals (5+5); Written Submission (10), and End Semester Examination (80
marks).

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the relevance of science and technology in the lives of women

CO 2: Recognize the development of new technologies and their effects on gender relations.
CO 3: Associate sexism in science
CO 4: Apply feminist perspectives in science and technology
CO 5: Interpret feminist reconstruction of science

UNIT I: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN:

A. Utilization of Science and Technology for Women’s Development (Women’s Education,
Employment, Health and Nutrition)
B. Women and Emerging Technologies: Mechanisation of Agriculture, Bio-Technology and
its Impacts on Women, Technologial Innovations and Reduction of Daily Household Chores
C. Women and Alternative Reproductive Technologies (Artificial Insemination, Invitro
Fertilisation, Prenatal Diagnosis Gender issues in Contraception)
D. Gender and ICT: Women’s Enrolment as IT professionals, Call Centres and BPOs,
Gender issues in IT field, Cyber crime and women.

UNIT II: SEXISM IN SCIENCE: CAN SCIENCE BE OBJECTIVE?

A. Locating the grand narrative of science within the Enlightenment period
B. Examining how science developed along with patriarchal notions of gender

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C. Biological Determinism: Looking for the Natural in the Social
D. Foucault and Bio-politics

UNIT III: FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES

A. Is there a Feminist Science?
B. The need for Feminist Science Studies
C. Feminist Studies of Science and Women’s Studies
D. The three positions: Standpoint, Empiricist and Post Modernist Positions

UNIT IV: FEMINIST RESTRUCTURING OF SCIENCE

A. Creating a Sustainable Science by linking Theory and Practice

 Gurumurthy, Gender and ICTs, Bridge Cutting Edge Park: Institute of Development
Studies, 2004
 Keller, Fox, Everlyn, Reflections on Gender and Science, Yale University Press, 1985
 Harding, Sandra G. (ed.), Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, New York: Routledge,
2004
 Journal of Women’s Studies, Special issue on Women and Health, Vol.1 (2),
University of Allahabad, September, 2007.
 Longino, Helen E. “Science, Objectivity, and Feminist Values.” Feminist Studies14: 561-74,
1988.
 Papa, Regina and Shanmuga Sundram, Yashodha (eds.), Women and Emerging
Technology, British Council Division, Chennai: British Deputy High Commission,
1996
 Potter, Elizabeth, Feminism and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction, New York:
Routledge, 2006
 Sagar, Rajiv, Women and Professional Development in India, New Delhi: Cyber Tech
Publication, 2010
 Schiebinger, Londa, Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1999
 Singha Roy, Debal K. Women, New Technology and Development, Cambridge
University Press, 1995

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 THIRD SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM3036: Engendering Governance

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: M.A. Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessionals (5+5); Book Review (5); Project Work (5), and End Semester
Examination (80 marks)
.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the concepts and agents of governance

CO 2: Demonstrate the debates on governance and women’s participation
CO 3: Explain the approaches to empowerment
CO 4: Sketch women’s participation in the governance process, with a focus on India
CO 5: Analyse theoretical and factual dimensions of women’s presence in governance process

UNIT I: UNDERSTANDING GOVERNANCE

A. Concepts: State, Sovereignty, Government, Minimalistic State- Welfare State- Neo
Liberal State, Globalization
B. The Concept of Governance: Intellectual and Political History
C. Agents of Governance: Government, Civil Society and Markets
D. Questioning ‘good’ governance: The Ideological Dimension of the Governance
Agenda

 Heywood, Andrew (2011) ‘Historical Contexts’ in Global Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp. 25-52.
 Heywood, Andrew (2011) ‘The State and Foreign Policy in a Global Age’ in Global Politics, New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 111-128.
 Harrison, Graham (2002) ‘Globalization’ in Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (Eds.)
Contemporary Political Concepts: A Critical Introduction, London: Pluto Press, pp. 14-34.
 Taylor, Andrew (2002) ‘Governance’ in Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (Eds.) Contemporary
Political Concepts: A Critical Introduction, London: Pluto Press, pp. 35-53.
 Bevin, Mark (2009) ‘Governance Indicators’ in Key Concepts of Governance, London: Sage,.pp.97-
100
 Weiss, Thomas G. (Oct., 2000) Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual
and Actual Challenges Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 795-814.
 Chandhoke, Neera (Aug., 2007) Civil Society, Development in Practice, Vol. 17, No. 4/5, pp. 607-614.
 Blakeley, Georgina ‘Civil Society’ in Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (Eds.) Contemporary
Political Concepts: A Critical Introduction, London: Pluto Press, pp. 90-107
 Chandhoke, Neera The Limits of Global Civil Society, pp. 35-53
 Bevin, Mark ‘Market’ in Key Concepts of Governance, London: Sage,.pp.124-128.
 Jayal, Niraja Gopal (1997) The Governance Agenda: Making Democratic Development Dispensable,
Economic and Political Weekly February 22.

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UNIT II: GENDER AND GOVERNANCE

A. Engendering the State

i. Women in Politics of South Asia
ii. Women in Politics in India
iii. Feminization of the Local: PRIs and Women in India.
B. Engendering the Civil Society: Women’s Civil Society Mobilization and Deepening
of Democracy
C. Engendering the Market: The mainstream-informal market distinction and Women’s
presence

 Niraja Gopal Jayal. (2003) Locating Gender in the Governance Discourse in Martha Nussbaum (ed.)
Essays on Gender and Governance, Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, pp. 96-130
 Kazi, Seema. (2011) Gender, Governance and Women’s Rights in South Asia, CWDS: Occasional
Paper 57.
 Agnihotri, Indu. (2008) ‘Women’s Movement and Governance: Issues and Challenges’ in Smita
Mishra Panda (ed.) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, New Delhi:
Sage, pp. 223-248.
 Mishra Panda, Smita (2008) ‘Engendering Governance Institutions: An Introduction’ in Smita Mishra
Panda (ed.) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, New Delhi: Sage,
pp. 15- 39.
 Basu, Amrita (2005) Women, Political Parties and Social Movements in South Asia United Nations
Research Institute For Social Development.
 Sharma, Kumud, (1998) Power Vs Representation: Feminist Dilemmas, Ambivalent State and the
Debate on Reservation for Women in India, CWDS Occassional Paper 28.
 Menon, Parvathi (2008) ‘Success Stories, Some Setbacks’, Frontline, June 6, pp.12-20.
 Agnihotri, Indu (2010) ‘Towards Equality’, Frontline, April 9, pp. 4- 14
 Vissandjée, Bilkis etal. (2006) ‘Women's Political Participation in Rural India: Discerning
Discrepancies through a Gender Lens’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies. pp. 425-450
 Tambiah, Yasmin (2003) ‘The Impact of Gender Inequality on Governance’ in Martha Nussbaum (ed.)
Essays on Gender and Governance, Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, pp. 59-95
 Banerjee, Nirmala (2008) ‘Engendering Market Mechanisms’ in Smita Mishra Panda (ed.)
Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 179-202

UNIT III: POLICY, PLANNING AND GENDER CONCERNS

A. Approaches to Empowerment: From WID to GAD

B. Gender and the Planning Process: Gender Budgeting and Gender Audits
C. Institutional Mechanisms for Gender Mainstreaming in India: National Commission
for Women

 Cooke, Hannah (2002) ‘Empowerment’ in in Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (Eds.)
Contemporary Political Concepts: A Critical Introduction, London: Pluto Press, pp. 162-178.
 Karlekar, Malavika (2004) A Note on the Empowerment of Women, Indian Journal of Gender Studies.
 Razavi , Shahrashoub and Carol Miller (1995) From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women
and Development Discourse, Geneva: UNRISD.
 Velayudhan, Meera ‘Redefining an Agenda for Governance: Gender and Policy Planning’ in in Smita
Mishra Panda (ed.) (2008) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, New
Delhi: Sage, pp. 159-179.
 Hay, Katherine (2012) Engendering Policies and Programmes through Feminist Evaluation:
Opportunities and Insights, Indian Journal of Gender Studies.
 Moser, C. (1993), Gender Planning and Development, Routledge, London.
 Sodani, P.R.and S. Sharma, (2008) ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting’, Journal of Health Management,
10, 2, pp. 227–240

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 Patel, Vibhuti (2008) ‘Gender Audits as an input to Engender Governance’ in Smita Mishra Panda (ed.)
Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 295-323.
 Rai, Shirin (2003) ‘The National Commission for Women: The Indian Experience’ in Shirin M. Rai
(Ed.) Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement
of Women, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 223-242.
 Arya,Sadhna (2009) The National Commission for Women: Assessing Performance, CWDS Mongraph.

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 THIRD SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM 3046: Women and Work

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: M.A. Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) , and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Define concepts and definitions of women and work

CO 2: Discuss Feminist Characterizations of Women’s Work
CO 3: Explain subordination and controls on women’s labour
CO 5: Illustrate women’s response to globalization
CO 5: Argue undervaluation of women’s work from a feminist perspective

UNIT I: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS:

From Classical Concepts of Labour to Neo-Classical Identification of work
Sexual or Natural Division of Labour-Biological and Cultural Factors
Nature of Women’s Work: Breaking the Binaries of Productive/Reproductive,
Factory/Home

UNIT II: CONSTRUCTION OF A WOMAN WORKER:

Gendering of Work and Worker
Feminist Characterizations of Women’s Work

UNIT III: SUBORDINATION AND CONTROLS ON LABOUR

Capitalist Patriarchal Controls on Women’s Labour
Construction of Women as Flexible, Low-Paid Workers
Devaluation of Women’s Work

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UNIT IV: WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION
Women in the Global Labour Market: Marginalization, Immiserisation, Casualization
andnew spaces
Feminization of Poverty and Feminization of Labour
Women’s response to Globalization

 Banerjee, Nirmala, A Note on Women as workers in Banerjee, Sen and Dhawan,

(Eds.), Mapping the Field, Stree Publications, Kolkata, 2011.
 Ghosh Jayati, Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India,
Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2009.
 Kanchi, Aruna, “Women in Agriculture in the Nineties” in Banerjee, Sen and Dhawan
(Eds.), Mapping the Field, Stree Publications, Kolkata, 2011.
 Banerjee, Nirmala, Parivar, Kaajaar Meyera, Ebong Aalap 5, Kolkata, 2007.
 Unni, Jeemol, “Women’s Work: Measurement, Nature and the Informal Sector”, in
Banerjee, Sen and Dhawan (Eds.), Mapping the Field, Stree Publications, Kolkata,
2011.
 Maria Mies, Social Origins of Sexual Division of labour in Patriarchy and
Accumulation on a World Scale, Women in an International Division of Labour, Zed
Books, London and NY, 1998.
 Mazumder Vina and Sharma Kumud, Sexual Division of labour and the
Subordination of Women: A Reappraisal from India, In Irene Tinker (Ed.) Persistent
Inequalities: Women and the World Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
1990.
 Benaria Lourdes, “Accounting for Women’s Work: The Progress of Two Decades in
World Development”, Vol. 20, No. 11, p.1547-1560, 1992.
 Swaminathan Padmini, Outside the Realm of Protective Labour Legislation: Saga of
Unpaid Labour in India, Economic and Political Weekly, October 31, Vol. XLIV, No,
44, 2009.
 Nancy Folbre, Holding Hands at Midnight: The Paradox of Caring Labour, Feminist
Economics, Vol. 1, No.1, Spring, p.73-92, 1995.
 Easter Boserup, Women’s Role in Economic Development, Earthscan, London, 1970.
 Kollontai, Alexandra, Selected Writings, Allison & Busby, 1977.
 Macdonald Martha, Gender and Social Security Policy: Pitfalls and Possibilities,
Feminist Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-25, 1998.
 Kabeer, Naila, Safety Nets and Opportunity Ladders: Addressing Vulnerability and
Enhancing Productivity in South Asia, Development Policy Review, Vol. 20, No. 5,
pp. 589-614, 2002.
 Banerjee Nirmala, “Women and Development”, in Sangri Kumkum and Vaid Sudesh
(Eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Kali for Women, Delhi, 1990.
 Bhattacharya, Sudhir, “On the Issue of Under-enumeration of Women’s Work in the
Indian data collecting system”, in Jain and Banerjee (Ed.), Tyranny of the Household,
Shakti Books, Delhi, 1985.
 Jain Devaki, “The household trap: report on survey of female activity patters”, in Jain
and Banerjee (Eds.), Tyranny of the Household, Shakti Books, Delhi, 1985.
 Sen Samita, Women and Labour in Late Colonial India, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1999.

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 THIRD SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM3056: Women’s Rights and Legal Advocacy

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: M.A. Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessionals (5+5); Project Work (10) , and End Semester Examination (80 marks)
.

COURSE OUTCOME:

CO 1: Outline the concepts and debates of legal advocacy
CO 2: Illustrate international law framework and women’s rights issues
CO 3: Discuss legal frameworks related to women in India
CO 4: Explain institutional mechanisms in India for legal redress for women
CO 5: Argue factual and analytical understanding of laws pertaining to women in India

UNIT I: CONCEPTS AND DEBATES

A. State, Justice, Equality, Rights, Law
B. Feminist Legal Theory: Absence of Women as legal ‘persons’; Feminist interrogation of Law-
Catherine MacKinnon and Carol Gilligan.
C. Women’s Movement and Legal Advocacy: Campaigns for Law Reforms in India

 Talukdar, PapiaSengupta (2008) ‘Rights’ in Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya (Eds.) Political
Theory: An Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 89-104.
 Casal, Paula and Andrew Williams (2008) ‘Equality’ in Catriona McKinnon (ed.) Issues in Political
Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 150-165.
 Heywood, Andrew (1994) ‘Equality, Social Justice and Welfare’ in Political Theory: An Introduction,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 284-315
 Menon, Krishna (2008) ‘Justice’ in Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya (Eds.) Political Theory: An
Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 74-86.
 Heywood, Andrew (1994) ‘Law, Order and Justice’ in Political Theory: An Introduction, New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 152-183.
 Childs, Mary (2001), ‘Law and Feminism’ in Elizabeth L. MacNabbetal. (Eds.) Transforming the
Disciplines: A Women’s Studies Primer, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, pp. 217-224.
 Smart, Carol (1989), ‘The Quest for a Feminist Jurisprudence’ in Feminism and the Power of Law,
London: Routledge, pp. 66-89.
 Kapur, Ratna and BrindaCossman, (1996) ‘Feminist Legal Revisions: Women, Law and Social
Change’ in Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements With Law in India, Sage Publications, pp. 19-86.
 Gandhi, Nandita and Nandita Shah, (1992) ‘Legal Campaigns’ in The Issues at Stake: Theory and
Practice in the Contemporary Women’s Movement in India, New Delhi: Kali for Women, pp. 213-272.

UNIT II: INTERNATIONAL LAW FRAMEWORK AND WOMEN’S

RIGHTS ISSUES

A. Bringing Women In: The International Bill of Human Rights [Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (1948), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966),
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), ECOSOC Syracuse Principles on the
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 Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(1985)]
B. Asserting Difference: ‘Women’s Rights are Human Rights’ [United Nations Commission on
Status of Women, 1946; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 1979; The Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1979; The Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women, 1993; International Conference on Population and
Development,1994 ; Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995 ; Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1999; The United
Nations Millennium Declaration (Goal 3), 2000; Security Council Resolution 1325, 2000]

 Chen, Martha Alter (1995) ‘Engendering World Conferences: The International Women's Movement
and the United Nations’ Third World Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3, Sep., , pp. 477-493
 Stamatopoulou, Elissavet (1995) ‘Women’s Rights and the United Nations’ in Julie Peters and Andrea
Wolper (Eds.) Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives, New York:
Routledge, pp. 36- 50.
 Charlesworth, Hilary (1995) ‘Human Rights as Men’s Rights’ in Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper (Eds.)
Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives, New York: Routledge, pp. 103

UNIT III: THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN INDIA AND WOMEN

A. The Constitution of India and frameworks of gender justice: Fundamental Rights (Articles 14, 15,
16, 21, 23); Directive Principles of State Policy (Articles 42, 46, 47), Universal Adult Franchise
(Article 325 and 326); The Panchayats and Municipalities [Articles 243(D) and 243 (T)]
B. The Provisions of the Indian Penal Code: Rape, Molestation and Sexual Exploitation; Trafficking
and Kidnapping; Dowry; Offences related to Marriage.
C. Specific Legislations pertaining to Women’s Rights: ITPA, 1956; MTP, 1971; IRWPA, 1986;
CSPA, 1987; PCPNDT, 1994; PWDVA, 2005; PCMA, 2006; Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace, 2013; Criminal Law (Amendment) Act,2013.
D. Labour laws and Women: The Factories Act, 1948 [Section 22(2), Section 27, Section 66(1)(b),
Section 19, Section 42, Section 48]; The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act,
1966 [Section 25, Section 14]; The Mines Act, 1952 [Section 46(1)(b), Section 20]; The Maternity
Benefit Act, 1961; Protective legislations and the Right to Equal Opportunity
E. Provisions related to marriage, divorce,inheritance and maintenance: Hindu Civil Code, Muslim
Personal Law and Christian Personal Law; Women’s Rights vis-à-vis Group Rights.
F. Women’s Rights and Cultural Claims: Women of North-East India and Customary Laws.

 Kapur, Ratna and BrindaCossman, (1996) ‘Constitutional Challenges and Contesting Discourses:
Equality and Family’ in Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements With Law in India, Sage Publications,
pp. 173- 231
 Sathe, S.P. (1993) ‘Sexism: Constitutional and Judicial Process’ in Towards Gender Justice, RCWS,
SNDT Univ- Gender Series, pp. 31-55.
 Singh, Kirti (2004) ‘Violence Against Women and the Indian Law’ in SavitriGoonesekere (Ed.)
Violence, Law and Women’s Rights in South Asia, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 77-147.
 Agnes, Flavia. (2004) ‘Plurality of Hindu law and Women’s Rights under It’ in Law and Gender
Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India, OUP, Delhi, pp.11- 28.
 Agnes, Flavia. (2004) ‘Hindu Law Reforms-Stilted Efforts at Gender Justice’ in Law and Gender
Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India, OUP, Delhi, pp.78-93.
 Parashar, Archana (1992) ‘Hindu Law Reform: The Goal of Uniformity and Sex-Equality’ in Women
and Family Law Reform in India: Uniform Civil Code and Gender Equality, New Delhi: Sage
Publications, pp. 77-143.
 Coomeraswamy, Radhika (2005) ‘Identity Within: Cultural Relativism, Minoritty Rights and the
Empowerment of Women’ in Indira Jaising (ed), Men’s Laws Women’s Lives: A Constitutional
Perspective on Religion, Common Law and Culture in South Asia, New Delhi: Kali for Women, pp. 23-
55
 Parashar, Archana (1992) ‘Personal Laws’ in Women and Family Law Reform in India: Uniform Civil
Code and Gender Equality, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 46-76.
 Parashar, Archana (2008) ‘Gender Inequality and Religious Personal Laws in India’, Brown Journal of
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 World Affairs, Spring/Summer 2008 • Volume XIV, Issue 2, pp. 103-112.
 Agnes, Flavia. (2004) ‘Evolution of Islamic Law and Women’s Spaces within It’ in Law and Gender
Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India, OUP, Delhi, pp.29-40.
 Parashar, Archana (1992) ‘Reforms in Minority Religious Personal Laws’ in Women and Family Law
Reform in India: Uniform Civil Code and Gender Equality, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 144-
200.
 Fernandes, Walter etal. (Eds.) ()Customary Laws in North East India: Impact on Women, Guwahati:
NESRC.

UNIT IV: INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS IN INDIA FOR LEGAL

REDRESS

A. Supreme Court and High Courts: Case Laws, Public Interest Litigation.
B. National Commission for Women: Composition and Scope of the Commission; Role in generating
Legal Awareness; Achievements in the Legal Domain
C. Assam State Commissions for Women: Composition and Scope; Role in providing Legal Aid
D. Alternative Justice Delivery System
 MahilaLokAdalats
 Family Courts
 Sood ,Avani Mehta () ‘Gender Justice through PublicInterest Litigation: Case Studiesfrom
India’, Vanderbilt Journal Of Transnational Law, Vol. 41, pp. 833-898.
 Sood, Avani Mehta (2006) ‘Litigating Reproductive Rights: Using Public Interest Litigation
and International Law to Promote Gender Justice in India’, New York: Centre for
Reproductive Rights.
 Arya,Sadhna (2009) The National Commission for Women: Assessing Performance, CWDS
Mongraph.
 NCW, (2002) Family Courts, New Delhi

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 THIRD SEMESTER: OPEN PAPERE
WOM3066: Gender and Violence

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Open Paper.
Credit: 6.
Evaluation: Internal Evaluation (IA) including presentations and Tutorials - 20 marks, and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO 1: Describe gender and violence from feminist perspective

CO 2: Explain different forms of gender-based violence
CO 3: Interrelate gender-based violence with state agencies, class, caste, religion and everyday life
CO 4: Analyse the role of the state and non-state actors in perpetuating violence against women
CO 5: Appraise gender intersection with structural inequalities and causes of violence against
women

UNIT I: GENDER AND VIOLENCE – FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES

A. Violence from Sociological, Legal and Historical Perspective Public/Private Divide and
Understanding Violence, CEDAW
B. Structural Inequalities and Violence – Racism, Classicism, Heterosexism, Sexism, Caste
C. Is Violence Gendered? Theories of Masculinity and Violence

 Engle, Sally. Wiley, Merry (2009). Gender Violence: a Cultural Perspective,

Blackwell.
 Gordon, L. P. (2002). Violence against women, Nova Publishers, , New York.
 Johnson. Holly, Ollus. Natalia, Nevala. Sami. (2008). Violence against women: an
international perspective, Springer.
 Kapadia, Karin. (2002). The violence of development: the politics of identity, gender
and social inequalities in India. Palgrave Macmillan.
 Shivdas, Meena and Coleman, Sarah (eds.), Without Prejudice: CEDAW and the
Determination of Women's Rights in a Legal and Cultural Context, Pall Mall, London,
2010.
 Dobash , Emerson and Dobash, Russell P. (1992) Women, violence and social
change, Routledge
 Jakobsen, Hilde ( ) What’s Gendered about Gender-Based Violence? An Empirically
Grounded Theoretical Exploration from Tanzania Gender and Society Vol 28, Issue 4, 2014.
 Anderson, Kristin L. 2005. Theorizing gender in intimate partner violence research. Sex
Roles 52:853-65.
 Anderson, Kristin L. 2009. Gendering coercive control. Violence Against Women 15:1444-
57
 Bennett, Jane, ed. 2010. Rethinking gender and violence. Special Issue, Feminist Africa 14:1-
6.
 Connell, Raewyn, Messerschmidt, James W. 2005. Hegemonic masculinity: Rethinking the
concept. Gender & Society 19:829-59.
 Seymour Kate (Re)Gendering Violence: Men, Masculinities and Violence, ANZCCC: The
Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2010
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UNIT II. STATE VIOLENCE ON WOMEN AND LAWS AND
PROCEDURES

A. Custodial Violence and Rape—Laws- recent amendments

B. Violence including Rape in Conflict areas – Naxalite movement, Kashmir, North East
India, Debate over the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

 Brownmiller, Susan, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Simon and Schuster, New
York, 1975.
 Gangoli, Geetanjali, Indian Feminisms: Law, Patriarchies and Violence in India, Ashgate,
Aldershot-Hampshire, 2007.
 Branche, Raphaelle, Virgili, Fabrice (eds.), Rape in Wartime, Palgrave Macmillan,
London and Basingstoke, 2012 
 Swati Parashar & Janet Andrew Shah (2016) (En)Gendering the Maoist Insurgency in
India: Between Rhetoric and Reality, Postcolonial Studies, 19:4, 445-462 
 Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, Disappearing Acts: The State and Violence against Women
in the Twentieth Century Signs, Vol. 25, No. 4, Feminisms at a Millennium (Summer,
2000), pp. 1139-1146
 Amrita Chhachhi , The State, Religious Fundamentalism and Women: Trends in South
Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 24, No. 11 (Mar. 18, 1989), pp. 567-573+575-
578
 Agnes, Flavia, “Protecting Women Against Violence? Review of a Decade of Legislation,
1980-89”, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 (17), 1992, pp. 19-21, 24-33.
 Agnes, Flavia, Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999. , Mumbai,
 Agnes, Flavia, Feminist Jurisprudence: Contemporary Concerns, Majlis2003.
 Duncan McDuie-Ra, Violence Against Women in the Militarized Indian Frontier: Beyond
“Indian Culture” in the Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women, Violence Against
Women 18(3) 322– 345
 Duncan McDuie-Ra (2009) Fifty-year disturbance: the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
and exceptionalism in a South Asian periphery, Contemporary South Asia, 17:3, 255-270
 Menon, Nivedita, “State/Gender/Community: Citizenship in Contemporary India”,
Economic & Political Weekly, 33 (5), 1989, pp. 3-10.

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UNIT III. CLASS, CASTE, RELIGION AND GENDER VIOLENCE
A. Partition Violence and Ethnic Cleansings
B. Communal Riots, Rape and Sexual Violence on Women: Colonial and Post-Independent
India
C. Caste Violence and ‘Honour’ Killings – Reign of Khap Panchayats
D. Globalisation, Industrial Growth and Class-Gender Violence -- Development,
Displacement, Eviction and Violence on Women

• Aloysius, Irudayam S. J., Mangubhai, Jayshree P., Lee, Joel G., (eds.), Dalit Women Speak
Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2011.
• Basu, Srimati, She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety,
SUNY Press, New York, 1998.
• Bhattacharyya, Rinki, Behind Closed Doors Domestic Violence in India, Sage, New Delhi,
2004.
• Bora, Papori, “Between the Human, the Citizen and the Tribal”, International Feminist
Journal of Politics, 12 (3-4), 2012, pp. 341-360.
• Acker, Joan, “Gender, Capitalism and Globalization”, Critical Sociology, 30 (1), 2004, pp.
17‐41.
• Natalie J. Sokoloff and Ida Dupont Domestic Violence at the Intersections of Race, Class,
and Gender: Challenges and Contributions to Understanding Violence Against Marginalized
Women in Diverse Communities VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 2005; 11; 38
• Kannabiran, Kalpana and Menon, Ritu, From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence
Against Women in India, Women Unlimited, Delhi, 2007.
• Shekhawat, Seema, Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir, Cambridge University Press,
New Delhi, 2014.
• Menon, Ritu and Bhasin, Kamla, Borders And Boundaries, Women In India's Partition, Kali
for Women, New Delhi 1998.
• Moser, Caroline O. N., Clark, Fiona C., (eds.), Victims, Perpetrators or Actors?: Gender,
Armed Conflict and Political Violence, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2001.

UNIT IV. WOMEN AND EVERYDAY VIOLENCE

A. Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Violence, Marital Rape
B. Dowry, Pornography, POCSO
C. Women, Work and Violence- Sexual Harassment/ Sex workers
D. Acid Attacks

• Oldenburg, Veena Talwar, Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime,
Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
• Geetha, V., “On Bodily Love and Hurt”, in John, Mary E. and Nair, Janaki (eds.), A
Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India, Kali for Women, New
Delhi, 1998.
• Jaisingh, Indira (ed.), Justice for Women: Personal Laws, Women’s Rights and Law
Reforms, The Other India Press, Mapusa, 1996.
• Kannabiran, Kalpana (ed.), The Violence of Normal Times, Women Unlimited, New
Delhi, 2005.
• Karen Boyle The Pornography Debates: Beyond Cause And Effect, Women’s Studies
International Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 187–195, 2000

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• Gill Hague, Ravi Thiara and Audrey Mullender Disabled Women, Domestic Violence and
Social Care: The Risk of Isolation, Vulnerabilityand Neglect The British Journal of Social
Work, Vol. 41, No. 1 (JANUARY 2011), pp. 148-165
• Babu, G. R., Babu, B. V., “Dowry deaths: A Neglected Public Health Issue in India”,
International Health, 3 (1), 2011, pp. 35-43.
• Gunne, Sorcha, Thompson, Zoe Brigley (Eds.), Feminism, Literature and Rape
Narratives: Violence and Violation, Routledge, New York, 2010.
• Sen, Samita, “Offences Against Marriage: Negotiating Custom in Colonial Bengal”, in
Nair, Janaki and John Mary (Eds.), A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of
Modern India, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1999.

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 THIRD SEMESTER: VALUE ADDED PAPER
WOM 3074: Academic Writing

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: M.A. Value Added Course.
Credit: 4.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the significance of academic writing in research

CO 2: Prepare citation styles and referencing, review of literature, bibliography and paraphrasing
CO 3: Apply graphical representation and interpretation of data.
CO 4: Utilize knowledge of plagiarism and research ethics
CO 5: Design research reports, papers, dissertation and seminar

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM 4016: Women, Health and Rights
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: Core Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Internal Evaluation (IA) including presentations and Tutorials - 20 marks and End
Semester Exam (ESE) - 80 Marks

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO 1: Describe the social, economic and political determinants of women’s health

CO 2: Illustrate gender inequalities and gender biases in health research
CO 3: Show the various issues concerning women’s reproductive health rights.
CO 4: Assess the alternative forms of knowledge with regard to healing and health
CO 5: Argue gender inequalities in public health policy and population policy

UNIT I: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN’S

HEALTH
A. Womanhood as Disease: Health Vs Beauty, General Health Vs Reproductive Health
B. The Politics of Malnutrition , under Nutrition and Anemia
C. Social and Cultural taboos and practices (Puberty, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Menopause)
D. Differential access to health delivery system.
E. Occupational Health of Women: Domestic, Agricultural and Unorganized sectors.

 Ruzek, Clarke And Olesen, Social, Bio-Medical And Feminist Models Of Women’s Health
 Soon-Young Yoon, Chapter 6. Looking At Health through Women's Eyes.
 Cheryl Brown Travis and Andrea L. Meltzer, ‘Women’s Health: Biological and Social Systems’ in
Florence L. Denmark and Michele L. Paludi (Ed.) Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and
Theories, London: Preage, 2008. pp. 353- 399.
 Wendy Harcourt, ‘The Global Women’s Rights Movement: Power Politics Around The United Nations
And The World Social Forum’, Civil Society And Social Movements Programme Paper Number 25
August 2006, United Nations research Institute For Social Development
 Krishna Soman, 2011, ‘Women’s Health and Rights to Health in Independent India: An Overview’ in
Nirmala Banerjee, Samita Sen and Nandita Dhawan (eds.) Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in
Contemporary India, Kolkata: Stree.
 Roberta Sassatelli Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture in the book,
Women’s Minds, Women’s Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Women’s Health by Gwyneth
Boswell, Fiona Poland.

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UNIT II: GENDER INEQUALITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
A. Review of Public Health policy
B. Gender Bias in Medical Research
C. Liberalization and Impact on Public Health: Health as Commodity
D. Medicalization of Female Body: Pregnancy and Childbirth.
E. Mental Health
F. NRHM and structural reform in Health

 Hilary Standing, ‘Gender and Equity in Health Sector Reform Programmes: A Review’, Health Policy and
Planning; 12(1): 1-18 (Health Sector Reforms In Developing Countries)
 Imrana Qadeer, ‘Health Planning in India: Some Lessons from the Past’, Social Scientist, Vol. 36, No. 5/6
(May - Jun., 2008), Pp. 51-75
 David H Peters, K Sujatha Rao and Robert Fryatt, ‘Lumping and Splitting: The Health Policy Agenda in
India’, Health Policy And Planning; 18(3): 249–260.
 Sama Team, Reproductive Health Services-the Transition from Policy Discourse to Implemention IN
Leena V Gangolli, Ravi Duggal And Abhay Shukla, ‘Review Of Healthcare In India’ Centre For Enquiry
Into Health And Allied Themes, January 2005
 Rajib Dasgupta, Imrana Qadeer, ‘The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM): A Critical Overview’
 Imrana Qadeer And K. R. Nayar, ‘Politics Of Pedagogy In Public Health’, Social Scientist, Vol. 33, No. 1/2
(Jan. - Feb., 2005), Pp. 47-75
 Imrana Qadeer, ‘The World Development Report 1993: The Brave New World Of Primary Health Care’,
Social Scientist, Vol. 22, No. 9/12 (Sep. - Dec., 1994), Pp. 27-39
 Madhulika Banerjee, ‘Public Policy And Ayurveda: Modernising A Great Tradition’, Economic And
Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 12 (Mar. 23-29, 2002), Pp. 1136-1146
 Imrana Qadeer And Dunu Roy, ‘Work, Wealth And Health: Sociology Of Workers' Health In India’, Social
Scientist, Vol. 17, No. 5/6 (May - Jun., 1989), Pp. 45-92

UNIT III: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND POPULATION POLICY

A. Birth Control vs Population Control: Trends and Implications on Women’s Health.
B. The Global Abortion Rights Movements: Legality Issue, Sex Selection.
C. Reproductive Technologies and their adverse effect on Women.
D. Changing notion of Motherhood: Surrogate Motherhood

 Joan C. Chrisler, ‘The Menstrual Cycle in a Biopsychosocial Context’ in Florence L. Denmark and Michele
L. Paludi (Ed.) Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories, London: Preage, 2008. pp.
400-339.
 Katherine Beckett, Choosing Cesarean: Feminism And The Politics Of Childbirth In The United States,
Feminist Theory 2005; 6; 251
 Lynn P. Freedman And Stephen L. Isaac, Human Rights And Reproductive Choices, Studies In Family
Planning, Vol. 24, No. 1, Junuary/February 1993.
 Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, Reproductive Rights in the Indian Context: An Introduction
 C.E. Joffe, T.A. Weitz And C.L. Stacey, Uneasy Allies: Pro-Choice Physicians, Feminist Health Activists
And The Struggle For Abortion Rights, Sociology Of Health & Illness Vol. 26 No. 6 2004, Pp. 775–796
 Sonia Correa And Rosalind Petchesky, Reproductive And Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective.
 Menon, Nivedita, “Abortion: When Pro-Choice is Anti-Women”, in Recovering Subversion: Feminist
Politics Beyond The Law, University of Illinois Press, Illinois, 2004.
 Qadeer, Imrana and John, Mary E., “The Business and Ethics of Surrogacy”, Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 2, Jan. 10 - 16, 2009.
 Qadeer, Imrana, Public Health in India, Danish Books, Delhi, 2012.

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 Rao, Mohan, From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic, Sage, New Delhi,
2004.
 Simon-Kumar, Rachel, Marketing' Reproduction?: Ideology and Population Policy in India, Zubaan, Delhi,
2006.
 Hodges, Sarah (ed), Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies, Orient Longman, Delhi,
2006.
 Pande, Amrita, “Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect Mother‐Worker.” Signs, 35 (4),
2010, pp. 969-992.
 Patel, Rita, “The Practice of Sex Selective Abortion in India: May you be the Mother of a Hundred Sons”,
Caroline Paper Series – International Health, Fall 1996, 3(1), pp. 1-19.
 Qadeer, Imrana, “Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
XXXIII No.41, 1998.

UNIT IV: HISTORY OF HEALING

A. Women as healers and their gradual marginalization: Reclaiming Knowledge
B. Feminist critique of major health system: Ayureveda, Homeopathy, Allopathy.
C. Reclaiming Women’s rights to their own bodies and Health Self Help Movement

 Madhulika Banerjee, ‘Public Policy And Ayurveda: Modernising A Great Tradition’, Economic And
Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 12 (Mar. 23-29, 2002), Pp. 1136-1146
 Bajpai, Smita, Hear Healing Heritage: Local Belief and Practices Concerning the Health of Women and
Children. Ahmedabad: Centre for Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness. 1996.

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: CORE PAPER
WOM 4026: Dissertation
Department: Women’s Studies
Type: M.A. Core Course
Credit: 6

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Demonstrate knowledge of research methodology and the theoretical understanding

CO 2: Develop academic writing skills and research aptitude
CO 3: Create original research work on areas of social relevance
CO 4: Construct objectives, research questions and articulated findings as per feminist research
methodology
Co 5: Defend the research findings and arguments to showcase the research skills

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM 4036: Women In North-East India

Department: Women’s Studies

Type: M.A. Elective Course
Credit: 6

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) , and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the status and position of women of North East India

CO 2: Illustrate women in social movement in North East India
CO 3: Demonstrate issues and debates of women and human security in North East India
CO 4: Illustrate traditional tribal societies, gender and social differences of North East India
CO 5: Examine changing phases of women in North East India

UNIT-I: WOMEN AND SOCIETY IN NE INDIA

A. Reconstructing Ethno History and Colonial Historiography in North-East India
B. Intersection of women in NEI with class, caste and ethnic/ community
variations of patriarchal and matrilineal societies.
C. Understanding traditional tribal societies, gender and social differentiations.
D. Theorizing Gender

UNIT-II: WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT

A. Women’s participation in the National Movement
B. Chandra Prabha Saikiani and beginning of Women’s Movement in Assam
C. Feminist Ideology of the Asom Mahila Samiti
D. Women’s Organization of NEI and Women’s Political Participation

UNIT-III: WOMEN AND HUMAN SECURITY IN NE INDIA

A. Female Literacy and Gender Gap
B. Women and Livelihood
C. Women and-health, production, reproduction, family and environment

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UNIT-IV: WOMEN AND CULTURE
A. Women and Customary Laws
B. Women’s Role in Civil Society
C. Women role in peace and conflict
D. Women and Development

 Sarma Dipti, “The Women of the Brahmaputra Valley in the Freedom Struggle (1921-
47)”, in Dr. (Ms) S.L. Baruah (Ed.), 1992, Status of Women in Assam With Special
Reference to Non-Tribal Societies, New Delhi: Omsons Publications.
 Sarma Dipti, Women of Assam: Their Contribution to India’s Freedom Struggle, A
Synoptic Note in Commemorative Volume, Golden Jubilee Handique Girls’ College,
1939-1989, Guwahati, 1989,
 Brauah Preeti, Edited in Guptajit Pathak, 2008, Assamese Women in Indian
Independence Movement: With a Special Emphasis on Kanaklata Barua, New Delhi:
Mittal Publications.
 Sharma Dipti, 1995, Mukti-Jujot Luitporia Nari, Guwahati: Students’ Stores.
 Sharma Dipti, 1993, Assamese Women in the Freedom Struggle, Calcutta: Punthi-
Pustak.
 Dr. (Ms) S.L. Baruah (Ed.), 1992, Status of Women in Assam With Special Reference
to Non-Tribal Societies, New Delhi: Omsons Publications.
 Renu Devi, (Ed.), Women of Assam, Omsons Publications: New Delhi, 1994.
 Misra Tilottama, 2007, Gunabhiram Baruah Ramnabami-Natak: The Story of Ram
and Nabami (translated and with an Introduction by Misra), New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
 Das Omeo Kumar, 1983, Jeevan Smriti, Guwahati: Asom Prakashan Parishad.
 Devi Nalinibala, 1994, Eri Aha Dinbur, Guwahati: Lawyers’ Book Stall.
 Goswami Mamoni Roisom, 2007, Upanyas Samagrah, Guwahati: Student Stores
Publishers.
 Sharma Manorama, 1990, Social and Economic Change in Assam: Middle Class
Hegemony, New Delhi: Ajanta Publications.
 Sharma Manorama, “Gender History and the Necessity of a Multidisciplinary
Approach”, Proceedings of North East India History Association, Dibrugarh, 2008.
 Sharma Manorama, “Locating the Women in History: The Need for an Imaginative
and Sensitive Methodology”, Proceedings of North East India History Association,
Goalpara, 2007.
 Sharma Manorama, “Gender History in North-East India in the Post 1947’
Proceedings of North East India History Association, Shillong, 2008.
 Sharma Manorama, “Gender and History: Necessity of a Methodology for Gender
Neutral Reconstruction”, Proceedings of North East India History Association,
Shillong, 2000.
 Sharma Manorama, Women in Ahom Economy: Some Textx Re-Examined”
Proceedings of North East India History Association, Shillong, 2002.
 Sharma Manorama, “Enriching Historical Research: Literature as a Source of
History”, Proceedings of North East India History Association, Shillong, 2006.
 Guha Anima, Bipanna Prajati, Manjula: Guwahati, 2015.
 Mahanta Aparna, 2008, Journey of Assamese Women 1836-1937, Assam Publication
Board: Guwahati.

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 Bora Shiela, Kanaklata Baruah, National Book Trust, India, 2016.
 Bora Shiela, Emergence of Feminism and Feminist Nationalism in Assam-Role of
Chandra Prabha Saikia and the Asom Pradeshik Mahila Samiti (1926-47), North East
India History Association, Shillong, 2013.
 Deka Meeta, Women’s Agency and Social Change Assam and Beyond, Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2013.
 Dutta Nandana, Questions of Identity of Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity,
SAGE Publications, New Delhi.
 Goswami Sandhya, Language Politics in Assam, Ajanta Publications, New Delhi,
1997.
 Kishwar Madhu, “Gandhi and Women’s Role in the Struggle for Swaraj”, in Sekhar
Bandyopadhyay, (Ed.), Nationalist Movement in India A Reader, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2009.
 Mahanta Aparna, “Women’s Movement in Assam and North-East India: An
Assessment”, in Mahendra Narain Karna, Social Movements in North-East India,
Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1998.
 Medhi Kunja and Dutta Anuradha, “Constraints of Women in Political Participation:
A Case Study of Assam”, in Renu Devi, (Ed.), Women of Assam, Omsons
Publications, New Delhi, 1994.
 Neog Maheswar, “Assam Agitates Against Foreign Nationals”, in B.L. Abbe, (Ed.),
Northeast Region: Problems and Prospects of Development, Centre for Research in
Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, 1984.
 Raychoudhury Ambikagiri, Mur Jibon Dhumuhar Esati, Kaushalya Devi
Raychoudhury, Gauhati, 1973.
 Borah Narayan, “Women’s Movement-Women’s Empowerment and Women’s Rights
in Assam”, IJCAES Special Issue on Basic, Applied & Social Sciences, Volume II,
July, 2012.
 Barpujari H.K., (Ed.), 1994, A Comprehensive History of Assam, Vol.3, Guwahati:
Assam Publication Board.
 Dutta K.N., 1958, Landmarks of the Freedom Struggle of Assam, Guwahati:
Lawyers’ Book Stall.
 Forbes, Geraldine, 2007, Women in Modern India, New Delhi: Cambridge University
Press.
 Guha Amalendu, 1977, Planter Raj to Swaraj, Freedom Struggle and Electoral
Politics in Assam, 1826-1947, New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research.
 Kakoti Banikanta, 1989, Mother Goddess Kamakhya, Guwahati: Assam Publication
Board.
 Kumar Radha, 1993, History of Doing, An Illustrated Accounts of Movement for
Women’s Right and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, New Delhi: Kali for Women.
 Menon Nivedita, (Ed.), 2006, Themes in Politics: Gender and Politics in India, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
 Thapar Romila, 1966, A History of India, Volume 1, New Delhi: Penguin Books.
 Thapar Romila, 1993, Interpreting Early India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
 Crenshaw Kimberle, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and
Violence Against Women of Color”, Standard Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 6, July,
1991.
 Chakravarti Uma, “Conceptualising Brahminical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender,
Caste, Class and State”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 14, 3

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 April, 1993 in Devika Rangachari, 2009, Invisible Women, Visible Histories Gender,
Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century AD), New Delhi:
Manohar Publishers & Distributors.
 Choudhuri Maitrayee, Feminism in India, Kali for Women and Women Unlimited,
New Delhi, 2004.
 Wharton Amy S., The Sociology of Gender, Wiley- Blackwell, West Sussex, UK,
2004.

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 THIRD SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM 4046: Gender and Education
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A.Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks) , and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Locate the theoretical perspective of paradigms in education and its application to gender.
CO 2: Describe the approaches of education in enhancing women’s capabilities
CO 3; Illustrate the history of women’s education and proponents of women’s rights
CO 4: Compare the contribution of different liberal reformers and radical theorists on women’s
education
CO 5: Determine the scope of gender-just pedagogies

UNIT I: GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION

A. Human Capital Theory
B. The Harnessing and Generation of Social Capital in Gender and Education.
C. Capabilities Theory and Applications to Gender.
D. The ‘Returns to Women’s Education Approach’ and the Approach of ‘Education
Enhances Women’s and Men’s Capabilities’.
 Goyal, Ashima. 2007 ‘Women Making Choices: Masked but Aware?’, Indian Journal of Gender
Studies 14. pp. 409-437
 Nussbaum, Martha 2012. ‘Women’s Education: A Global Challenge’, in Jacqueline Goodman (Ed.)
Global Perspectives on Gender and Work: Readings and Interpretations, Delhi: Rawat Publishers. Pp.
508-517.
 R. Kamat,. ‘Women’s Education and Social Change in India’ Social Scientist, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Aug.,
1976), pp. 3-27.
 Todaro and Smith, “Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development”, in Todaro and
Smith, 2011, Economic Development, Prentice Hall.
 Pipa Norris and Jogn Inglehart, Gendering Social Capital, Kennedy School of Government. Harvard
University, 4/16/2003.

UNIT II: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S EDUCATION

A. Movements for Women’s Education; Pioneers of Women’s Education: Savitribai
Phule, Rokeya S. Hossain, Pandita Ramabai.
B. Colonialism and Women’s Education
C. Education and International Developments: International Development Aid and Goals
(e.g. the current Millennium Development Goals).
D. Women’s Education in Contemporary India: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Adult
Education for Women?

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  Forbes, Geraldine. Chapter II, ‘Education for women’ in Women in Modern India, Delhi: Cambridge
 Aparna Basu. 2005. ‘A Century and a Half’s Journey: Women’s Education in India, 1850s to 2000’ in
Bharati Ray.(ed.) Women of India: Colonial and Post Colonial Periods, New Delhi: Centre for Studies
in Civilisation
 Bharati Ray, 2005, ‘A Voice of Protest: The Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932)’ in
Bharati Ray, (Ed.), Women of India: Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods, New Delhi: Centre for
Studies in Civilisation.
 Meera Kosambi, “Multiple Contestations: Pandita Ramabai’s Educational and Missionary activities in
late nineteenth-century India and abroad”, Women’s History Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1998, pp. 193-208.
 Meera Kosambi, Women, Emancipation and Equality: Pandita Ramabai's Contribution to Women's
Cause, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 23, No. 44 (Oct. 29, 1988), pp. WS38-WS49
 Malini Sur, 2004, “Women's Right to Education- A Narrative on International Law”, Indian Journal of
Gender Studies, 11:3, pp. 255-274.
 UNICEF, 2012, ‘Human Rights, Gender Violence and Education’ in Engendering Empowerment:
Education & Equality, New York: UNICEF.
 Mala Khullar, 2005, Writing the Women’s Movement, A Reader, Delhi: Zubaan, Kali for Women.
 S.P. Agarwala, 2001, Women’s Education in India 1995-98 Present Status, Perspective Plan,
Statistical Indicators with a Global View, Vol III, Concept Publishing House, New Delhi.
 Neera Desai and Usha Thakkar, 2001, Women in Indian Society, National Book Trust, New Delhi,
India.
 Neera Desai, Vina Mazumdar and Kamalini Bhansal, “ From Women’s Education to Women’s
Studies”, in Devaki Jain and Pam Rajput, (Ed.), 2003, Narratives From The Women’s Studies Family,
Sage Publications, pp. 44-77.

UNIT III: ISSUES AND CONCERNS IN WOMEN’S EDUCATION.

A. Gender Gap in Education
B. Formal and Informal Education: Ways to Women’s Empowerment.
C. Nature of Education: Adult Education, Mass Literacy Campaigns Targeting
Women, Vocational Training Schemes for Women

 Manabi Mazumdar. 2012. ‘From Access To Attainment: Girls’ Schooling In Contemporary India’ in
Nirmala Banerjee (Eds.) Mapping The Field: Gender Relations In Contemporary India, Vol I, Kolkata:
Stree.
 Subramanian, Jayasree. 2007. ‘Perceiving and Producing Merit: Gender and Doing Science in India’,
Indian Journal of Gender Studies 14. pp. 259-284
 Paromita Chakravati, 2012, “The Ideology of Literature: A Gendered Study of Bengali Language
School Text-Books in West Bengal”, in Kavita Punjabi And Paromita Chakravarti (Ed.) Women
Contesting Culture: Changing Frames Of Gender Politics In India, Kolkata: Stree.

UNIT IV: GENDER AND PEDAGOGY

A. Curriculum and Pedagogy.
B. Gender-just Pedagogies: Care, Nurture, and Empowerment.
C. Gender and the Text-book.

 Frances A. Maher and Charles H. Rathbone ‘Teacher Education and Feminist Theory: Some
Implications for Practice’ American Journal of Education, Vol. 94, No. 2 (Feb., 1986), pp. 214-
235.
 Linda Briskin and Rebecca Priegert Coulter. 1992.’Introduction: Feminist Pedagogy: Challenging the
Normative’, Canadian Journal of Education Vol. 17, No. 3 Feminist Pedagogy (Summer, 1992), pp.
247-263

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 UNESCO, 2009, Promoting Gender Equality through Textbooks: A Methodological Guide, The United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
 Caroline M. Shrewsbury, “What is Feminist Pedagogy?”, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 1993, 3 & 4, pp.
8-16.

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM 4056 - Gender, State and Citizenship

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: M.A. Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks), and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the concepts of citizenship

CO 2: Demonstrate the discourses on citizenship located at multiple sites in the context of the
Indian State
CO 3: Illustrate the inter-linkages between the conceptual framework of citizenship and gender
CO 4: Analyse women’s citizenship in the context of the Indian state and its Laws
CO 5: Criticize citizenship and exclusions in the context of women in India

UNIT I: CONCEPTS: CITIZENSHIP

A. What is Citizenship- gendered citizenship

B. Public and Private Citizenship
C. Differentiated Citizenship
D. The politics of belonging

 Anne Marie Goetz Gender Justice, Citizenship and Entitlements: Core Concepts, Central Debates and
New
Directions for Research InMaitrayeeMukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh Gender Justice, Citizenship
and Development (2007) by Zubaan
 RaiaProkhovnikPublic and Private Citizenship: From Gender Invisibility to Feminist
Inclusiveness Feminist Review, No. 60, Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Love, (Autumn,
1998), pp. 84-104
 Ruth Lister Citizenship: Towards a Feminist Synthesis Feminist Review, No. 57, Citizenship: Pushing
the Boundaries, (Autumn, 1997), pp. 28- 48
 HaldunGülalpCitizenship and Democracy beyond the Nation-State? Cultural Dynamics 2013 25:
29
 MaroPantelidouMaloutasThe Gender of Democracy: Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity Routledge
2006
 Davis, Yuval, Nira and Pnina, Werbner (eds.), Women, Citizenship and Difference, New Delhi, Zubaan,
2005.
 Anne Phillips Democracy and Difference [Chapter 5- Citizenship and Feminist theory] Polity
Press 1993
 Anurekha Chari Gendered Citizenship and Women's Movement: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
44, No. 17 (Apr.25 - May 1, 2009), pp. 47-57
 Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Special Issue on Rethinking Citizenship, 42, 1, 2007

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UNIT II: THE STATE AND CITIZENSHIP
A. Power and Hegemony
B. The State and Society- continuities and discontinuities
C. The process and problems of state formation
D. Refugees and Statelessness- citizenship claims

 John Andersen and Birte Siim The politics of inclusion and empowerment : gender, class, and
citizenship Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 2004
 Shabnam Tejani The Necessary Conditions for Democracy B R Ambedkar on Nationalism,
Minoritiesand Pakistan EPW December 14, 2013 vol xlviii no 50
 From independence towards freedom: Indian women since 1947
 Ruth Lister Citizenship: Towards a Feminist Synthesis Feminist Review, No. 57, Citizenship: Pushing
the Boundaries, (Autumn, 1997), pp. 28- 48
 HaldunGülalpCitizenship and Democracy beyond the Nation-State? Cultural Dynamics 2013 25:
29
 NirajaGopalJayalA False Dichotomy? The UnresolvedTension between Universal andDifferentiated
Citizenship in IndiaOxford Development Studies, 39:02, 185-204
 Nira Yuval Davis The politics of belonging: Intersectional Contestations Sage Publications Ltd. 2011
[Chapter- Introduction- Framing the Questions]
 Fraser, Nancy (1998) : Social justice in the age of identity politics: Redistribution, recognition,
participation, WZB Discussion Paper, No. FS I 98-108

UNIT III: LAW AND CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA

A. Constitution and Constitutional Assembly Debates: Constitutional Morality; Articles 15,
16, 17, 23
B. Caste, Tribe and Citizenship: The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of
Atrocities) Act, 1989 and The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of
Atrocities) Amendment Ordinance 2014; De-notified Tribes, Criminal Tribes
C. Community Identity vs Citizenship: Cutomary Law, UCC, Muslim women’s Protection
of Rights Act 1983
D. Collective Violence, Partition, Gujrat riots, Communal Violence Bill, AFSPA, BTAD
violence
 Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. Caste, culture and hegemony: social domination in colonial Bengal Sage
Publications India Pvt Ltd 2004 [Chapter 4 Caste and Women :Social Mobility and the Status of
Women] 
 Andre Betteille, Constitutional Morality. EPW October 4, 2008
 PratapBhanu Mehta What is Constitutional Morality?
www.india-seminar.com/2010/615/615_pratap_bhanu_mehta.htm
 Linda C. Mclain and Joanna L Grossman [eds] Gender Equality: Dimensions of Wiomen’s equal
Citizenship Cambridge University Press, 2009
 Uma ChakravartiGendering Caste:Through a Feminist Lensstree 2003
 John Andersen and BirteSiimThe politics of inclusion and empowerment : gender, class, and
citizenship Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 2004
 VirginiusXaxaTribes and Social Exclusion :Occassional Paper 2011, No. 2 CSSSC-UNICEF Social
Inclusion Cell
 Stuart CorbridgeCompeting Inequalities: The Scheduled Tribes and the Reservations System
in India's Jharkhand: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 2000), pp. 62-85
 The Scheduled Castes And The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act, 1989
 Muslim Women’s Protection of Rights act 1983
 The Scheduled Castes And The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Of Atrocities) amendment Ordinance
2014

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UNIT IV: CITIZENSHIP AND EXCLUSIONS

A. Intimate citizenship: Sexual Minorities (Elżbieta H. Oleksy)

B. Citizenship rights & Disability
C. Migration, Displacement & Social Security

 Renu Addlakha Disability Studies In India: Global Discourses, Local Realities, Routledge, 2012
 Nivedita, Menon (ed.), Sexualities: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism, London, Zed Books,
2008.
 Akshay Khanna Sexualness, NewText Publication, 2016
 Elz˙bieta H. Oleksy(ed.) Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics Introductory Chapter
‘Citizenship Revisited’

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: ELECTIVE PAPER
WOM 4066: Women and Literature
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A. Elective Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: I Sessional 108) marks+ Seminar Presentation (10) marks=20marks (total), and End
Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Identify the concerns of feminist literary criticism

CO 2: Represent selected gender issues - stereotypes, oppressions, patriarchy, power - in literature
by men
CO 3: Illustrate the representation of gender issues in literature by women
CO 4: Represent the genre of autobiography or self-writing to express women’s experiences
CO 5: Illustrate writings by women as a source of empowerment

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCERNS OF FEMINIST

LITERARY CRITICISM
Sexual difference, gaze, relationships between men and women, between women and the society they
are shown in, women’s work, women’s experience, mobility and sessility, the development of or
resistance to the formation of women’s communities, the representation of the body and sexuality,
exclusive and gendered spaces, self-realization and empowerment processes, the differences between
ways of writing by men and women, ecriture feminine, male/female stereotypes

Supplementary Readings (these should give students access to the basic issues in feminist
literary theory):
 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
 Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics
 Sonya Andermahr, Glossary of Feminist Theory
 Helene Cixous, ‘La- The (Feminine)’(Source, The Cixous Reader), ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’
 Ann Rosalind Jones, ‘Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l’Ecriture feminine’
 Judith Fetterley, ‘Introduction: On the Politics of Literature’ (Sources for last three texts Feminisms
eds. Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl)
 Jane Tompkins, ‘Me and My Shadow’ (Feminisms)

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UNIT II: REPRESENTATION OF SELECTED GENDER ISSUES -
STEREOTYPES, OPPRESSIONS, PATRIARCHY, POWER - IN
LITERATURE BY MEN.

Texts
A. Kalidas Shakuntala (text edited by Romila Thapar, OUP)
B. U.R. Ananthamurthy Samskara
C. William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew
D. Bhaben Saikia The Hour Before Dawn (Antoreep)(Penguin)

Supplementary Readings (students are advised to read the one text listed here to get an idea
about the first serious critique of the representation of women by men. While the author
discusses Western literary texts, the issues she points to are largely valid across cultures and
will be useful in reading the prescribed texts):
 Kate Millet, Sexual Politics

UNIT III: REPRESENTATION OF SELECTED GENDER ISSUES, LIKE

VIOLENCE, EMPOWERMENT, VOICE, RESISTANCE IN LITERATURE
BY WOMEN
A. Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Unwe Khowa Howda (DKPublishing)
B. Mahashweta Devi, Breast Stories (Seagull)
C. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
D. Arupa Patangia Dawn

Supplementary readings (the purpose of the texts listed here is to give students a large
number of examples of writing by women so that the way gender issues are represented is
evident and will enable a better reading of the prescribed texts)
 Gilbert and Gubar eds. The Norton Anthology of Writing by Women 
 Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, Women Writing in India 2 vols (OUP)
 Perkins, Warhol and Perkins eds. Women’s Work

UNIT IV: WOMEN WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, LETTERS,

MEMOIRS, DIARIES

(In this Unit, a difference is sought to be made between Unit 3 where women represent
gender issues in their writings and a conscious use of writing as a source of empowerment
with women making use of the genre of autobiography or self-writing to express themselves)
A. Simone de Beauvoir Witness to My life (letters to Jean Paul Sartre, Selections)
B. Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Sue Dickinson (from the Letters of Emily Dickinson)
C. Sarojini Naidu’s Letters to her daughter
D. Mrs Jessie Moore, Twenty Years in Assam
E. Nalinibala Debi, Eri Oha Dinbor

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(One autobiography etc that students may choose either from English or one of the languages
they are comfortable with. ...could be used as a project in combination with the writing of
women’s experience as practised by Jane Tompkins in essay listed in unit 1)

Supplementary Readings:
 Sidonie Smith, A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography
 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic
 Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: OPEN PAPER
WOM 4076: Gender Geography.

Department: Women's Studies.

Type: Open Paper.
Credit: 6.

Evaluation: Sessional Exam (5x2=10), Home assignment (5 marks), Presentation (5 marks), and
End Semester Examination (80 marks)

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Describe the significance and importance of gender geography

CO 2: Demonstrate how people organise their everyday spaces and relate to it in terms of gender.
CO 3: Interrelate the material and symbolic lives of women and men with space and place
CO 4: Assess the role played by space and place in the making of gender
CO 5: Compile data of gender issues for spatial analysis through mapping

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION
1. Meaning of Gender Geography, scope, significance and importance of establishing
Gender Geography.
2. Feminism and Geographic knowledge
3. Women and everyday spaces

 Feminism in Geography Edi Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi

 Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda McDowell
 Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge by Gillian Rose,.
UNIT II: GENDER, IDENTITY AND SPACE
1. Home, place and identity, the separation of spheres.
2. Women at work
3. Community, city and locality
4. Gendering the Nation-State

 Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda McDowell

 Putting Women in Place, Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World by Mona Domosh
and Joni Seagerpg 1-34

UNIT III: GEOGRAPHY AND EVERYDAY ISSUES OF GENDER

1. Gender and Migration/Displacement
2. The environment: study nature, climate change and gender issues

 Putting Women in Place, Feminnist Geographers Make Sense of the World by Mona Domosh
and Joni Seager
 Reading 1: Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda
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 McDowell ,
 Geraldine Terry (2009): No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues
Gender and Development, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 5-18 Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
 Fatma Denton (2002): Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation: Why Does
Gender Matter? Gender and Development, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 10-20, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

UNIT IV: ATLAS ON WOMEN: MAPPING WOMEN’S LIVES

EXERCISES
1. The state of women: Lifetime, Gender Development Index, Gender Gap Index
2. Families: Households, marriage and divorce, domestic violence, murder, maternal
mortality, missing girls
3. Body politics: breast cancer, sports, beauty, global sex trafficking, rape.
4. Work: working for wages, workplaces, unequal opportunities, farming.

 SaraswatiRaju, Peter J Atkins, Naresh Kumar, Janet G Townsend (1999). Atlas of Women
and Men in India, Kali for Women.
 Joni Seager (2008): The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World, Penguin Books.

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 FOURTH SEMESTER: VALUE ADDED PAPER
WOM 4084: Professional Skill Development
Department: Women's Studies.
Type: M.A. Value Added Course.
Credit: 4.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO 1: Identify strategies to crack competitive exams in state and national level

CO 2: Prepare for future interviews while seeking employment as well as higher education.
CO 3: Develop skills in writing Curriculum Vita, academic writing and presentations.
CO 4: Utilize personality development and practical experiences from coursework
CO 5: Create future career opportunities after course completion

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