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

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

9.00

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

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: 
  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
References: 

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
Academic Session: 
2020-21
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