Contemporary Indian Society and Women

Paper Code: 
WMS 301
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

With the background of understanding achieved from the previous paper this course further acquaints the students with individual and collective spaces of women in Indian social structure to enhance their knowledge and respect of diversity and enable them to reach out to the underprivileged sections of society.

9.00
Unit I: 
Study of status of women in Contemporary India

Study of status of women in Contemporary India in the background of development

 

         

9.00
Unit II: 
Impact of National policies on women.

Impact of National policies on women.

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Status of women in various Religions

Hinduism and Christianity with reference to Pandita Ramabai

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Nature of violence & oppression against women

Nature of violence & oppression against women Domestic Violence, Wars, Riots (caste and religion), State

9.00

Institutional and Social response for women victims of violence during Partition

 

Essential Readings: 

Unit I

In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008,

Initiatives Against Dowry Deaths; pp. 42-46,

The Bodhgaya Struggle; pp. 46-52,

Implication of Declining Sex Ratio in India’s Population; pp 52-

Feminism, poverty and Globalisation; pp 194-202,

Women, Kerala and Some Development Issues; 187-194,

Women’s Development Programme, Rajasthan; pp 184-187

How Real is the Bogey of Feminisation; pp 202-211

Unit II

  1. Banerjee, Somya (ed.) National policy for Women, Arise Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi 2009, pp 80-227
  2. Agarwal, Bina, ‘Why do Women Need Independent Rights in Land?’ in Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, pp165-168, 175-184

Unit III

VD Mahajan and DD Kosambi for Status of Women in Various religions

  1. Kosambi, Meera, At the Intersection of Gender Reform and Religious Belief, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay 1995, pp. 1-104
  2. Kosambi, Meera, Pandita Ramabai’s Feminist and Christian Conversions, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay 1995, pp 1-6
  3. Chakravarti, Uma Rewriting History, The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2006, pp vii-xiii, 303-350

Unit IV

  1. Singh, A.K., Singh S.P. & Pandey A.K., Domestic Violence Against Women in India, Madhav Books, Haryana, 2009, pp ix-xxvi, 3-50
  2. Kannabiran, Kalpana & Menon, Ritu, From Mathura to Manorama, Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2007 pp 1-39
  3. Menon, Ritu & Bhasin, Kamala, Honorably Dead, Permissible Violence Against Women, in Borders and Boundaries, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2007 pp 31-64

Unit V

  1. Singh, A.K., Singh S.P. & Pandey A.K., Domestic Violence Against Women in India, Madhav Books, Haryana, 2009; pp 272-354
  2. Borders and Boundaries, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2007 pp 65-130, 167-202
References: 
  1. In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books,
  2. Alfred D’souza (ed.), Women in Contemporary India and South Asia, Manohar Publications, New Delhi 1980 pp 199-212 
  3. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  4. Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers and Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  5. Chakraborty, Dipangshu; Atrocities on Indian Women, A P H Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1999
  6. In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Household and Family; 
  7. Dube, Leela, ‘On Construction of Gender: Hindu Girls in Patrilineal India’ in
  8. ‘Socialization, Education and Women: Exploration in Gender Identity’, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1988, pp 166-191
  9. Oberoi, Patricia, ‘Social Reforms, Sexuality and the State’, Contributions to Women’s Studies, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996
Academic Session: 
2016-17
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