Contemporary Indian Society and Women

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

The objectives of this course are-

  1. To acquaint the students with individual and collective spaces of women in Indian social structure.
  2. To evaluate several women-related policies.
  3. To understand various forms of women’s exploitation.

 

 

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 301

Contemporary Indian Society and Women

CO 25: Locate the status of women in various social institutions

CO 26: Assess the theoretical concepts for understanding several policies on women.

CO 27: Identify various platforms for women’s exploitation.

CO 28: Develop a critical outlook to understand social response towards women’s oppression.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
  • Study of status of women in Contemporary India in the background of development

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Impact of National policies on women

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
  • Status of women in various Religions;
  • Hinduism and Christianity with reference to Pandita Ramabai

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
  • Nature of violence & oppression against women, Domestic Violence, Wars, Riots (caste and religion), State

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
  • Institutional and Social response for women victims of violence during Partition

 

Essential Readings: 
  • In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books,
  • Alfred D’souza (ed.), Women in Contemporary India and South Asia, Manohar Publications, New Delhi 1980 pp 199-212 
  • S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  • Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers and Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  • Chakraborty, Dipangshu; Atrocities on Indian Women, A P H Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1999
  • In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Household and Family; 
  • Dube, Leela, ‘On Construction of Gender: Hindu Girls in Patrilineal India’ in
  • ‘Socialization, Education and Women: Exploration in Gender Identity’, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1988, pp 166-191
  • Oberoi, Patricia, ‘Social Reforms, Sexuality and the State’, Contributions to Women’s Studies, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996

 

References: 
  • 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
  • Banerjee, Somya (ed.) National policy for Women, Arise Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi 2009, pp 80-227
  • 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
  • VD Mahajan and DD Kosambi for Status of Women in Various religions
  • Kosambi, Meera, At the Intersection of Gender Reform and Religious Belief, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay 1995, pp. 1-104
  • Kosambi, Meera, Pandita Ramabai’s Feminist and Christian Conversions, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Bombay 1995, pp 1-6
  • Chakravarti, Uma Rewriting History, The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2006, pp vii-xiii, 303-350
  • Singh, A.K., Singh S.P. & Pandey A.K., Domestic Violence Against Women in India, Madhav Books, Haryana, 2009, pp ix-xxvi, 3-50
  • Kannabiran, Kalpana & Menon, Ritu, From Mathura to Manorama, Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2007 pp 1-39
  • Menon, Ritu & Bhasin, Kamala, Honorably Dead, Permissible Violence Against Women, in Borders and Boundaries, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2007 pp 31-64
  • Singh, A.K., Singh S.P. & Pandey A.K., Domestic Violence Against Women in India, Madhav Books, Haryana, 2009; pp 272-354
  • Borders and Boundaries, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2007 pp 65-130, 167-202

 

Academic Session: 
2021-22
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