FEMINIST THEORY AND MOVEMENTS

Paper Code: 
CWMS 201
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes(COs):

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO6: Evaluate the role of women in several social movements.

CO7: Critically analyze global women’s movements of the local region.

CO8: Identify the contribution of several pioneers of the field.

CO9: Develop insights for understanding the dynamics of women’s movements in co-relation to women’s studies.

Interactive Lectures, Power Point Presentations, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

15.00
Unit I: 
Feminist Theory I: Rise of Feminism, Introduction to various stands of Feminism.

 

  • Liberal Feminism
  • Radical Feminism
  • Marxist Feminism
  • Socialist Feminism

 

15.00
Unit II: 
Feminist Theory II
  • Cultural Feminism
  • Eco-Feminism
  • Post Colonial Feminism
  • Post Modern Feminism

 

 

15.00
  • International Women’s Movement: The socio-economic conditions of women during the age of Industrial revolution, The Seneca Falls Convention and the Call for Women's Rights 1848
  • Women’s rights movement 1848-1920, Suffrage Movement, Working Women issues
  • Waves of Feminism

 

15.00
  • Women’s Movement in colonial India: Historical Developments of Social Reform Movements
  • The Colonial and Nationalist Responses, Women’s representation in Karachi Congress Resolution, National Movement and the genesis of feminism, AIWC, Quit India Movement, Women’s revolutionary activities.
15.00
  • Women’s Movements in Post-Independence India: Tebhaga Movement and Telengana Movement
  • Women’s groups and organizations, some autonomous Women’s Movement
  • Roop Kanwar incident and anti-sati agitation, Movements for Uniform Civil code and ShahBano case
  • Dalit women and the question of double marginality

 

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  • BasabiChakrabarti, Women's Studies: Various Aspects. UrbiPrakashani 2014
  • Mary E. John. Women's Studies in India: A reader. Penguin Books. 2008
  • Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 1963
References: 
  • Neera Desai (1988). “A Decade of Women’s Movement in India”.MeenaPandev, Bombay.
  • Radha Kumar. (1993). “The History of Doing”. Kali for Women, New Delhi.
  • AparnaBasu&Bharati Rau: Women’s Struggle, (New Delhi: Manohar, 1996).
  • Geraldine Forbes , Women in Modern India Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement / by Sally G. McMillen Hardcover – 2008
  • Sally J. Scholz, Feminism: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)Paperback – February 1, 2010
  • Tong Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989
  • Simon De Beauvoir (1949). “Second Sex”. Translated and edited by H.M. Parshley. Vintage Books, London.
  • Engels, Friedrich. (1979). “The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State”. Pathfinder Press, New York. (1884 tr. 1902)
  • Vandana Shiva. (1991) Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India. Sage.
  • Firestone, Shulamith. (1970). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist

             Revolution‟. William Morrow, New York.

  • Gimenez, Martha. (1998). “Introduction‟ in Marxist Feminism/Materialist

              Feminism”. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html

 

 

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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