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FOUNDATION COURSE IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
Concept, Scope and History of Women’s Studies; Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement – an Interface, Indian Perspective. Sex and Gender: Biological, Social, Cultural, Religious and attitudinal factors.
Representation of Indian Women through the ages (ancient, medieval and modern), Problems of Indian women
Women and Law- 73rd and 74th amendments, Women and Political Participation with special reference to local self governments i.e. PRIs and Municipalities. Violence against women.
Women Empowerment – National and State Policy for women empowerment.
Human Rights, Women’s Rights and Rights of the Girl child.
Women & Health – Menstruation cycles as Individual woman’s health; Sex ratio as Collective Health Status of Women in India, Female infanticide and sex determination.
Unit I
Women’s Studies in India – A Reader, Ed. Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008, 1-164 pages
Women Writing in India, Twentieth Century, Volume II, Eds. Susie Tharu and K Lalita, OUP, 1993/2009 pages vii – 40
Women’s Studies in India, Dr(MRS) L Thara Bhai, A.P.H. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 2000 pp vii-61
Women’s Studies 1 ed S Channa, Cosmo Publications, New Delhi 2004
pp181-208, ‘The Indian National Movement and Women’s Issues: century of Social Reforms, 1850-1950’ by Yuthika Mishra
pp 209-230, ‘Women in Revolt: a Historical Analysis of the Progressive Organization of Women in Andhra Pradesh
The History of Doing, by Radha Kumar, Zubaan, New Delhi 2009
What is Patriarchy? By Kamla Bhasin, Women Unlimited, New Delhi,1993 -2010
The Issues at Stake, Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women’s Movement in India, Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1992. copies available at Akshara, Mumbai
Unit V
Women’s Studies in India – A Reader, Ed. Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008
pp 364 Backpain, the Feminine Affliction, by Veena Shatrugna, Nirmala Soundarajan, P. Sundaraiah, Leela Ramam
pp 371 Contraceptive research: Is there a Gender-Neutral Approach? By Vineeta Bal, Vani Subramaniam and Laxmi Murthy, Saheli
pp.381 Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective by Imrana Qadeer
pp. 387 Our Health Our Heritage by Shodhini
Unit II
Women’s Studies, An Emerging Academic Discipline, Ed. A. Suryakumari, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 2006
Indian Women and The Freedom Movement: A Historian’s Perspective, Geraldine Forbes, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai,1997
Recasting Women, Essays in Colonial History, Eds. Sudesh Vaid and Kumkum Sangari, Zubaan, 2009
pp1-26 Introduction, Sudesh Vaid and Kumkum Sangari
Women and Culture, Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai,1997
pp 1-3 General Introduction
pp 4-17 Reflections on Women and Culture
pp 18-22 Introductory Note
pp 23-34 The Ramakatha From Valmiki to Tulsidas: With Special Reference to Women, Ramashraya Sharma
pp 48-59 Women in Mahabharata, Sukumari Bhattachrya
pp 71-83 Women and the Bhakti Movement, Neera Desai
pp 103-112 The ‘Women’s Question’ in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Sumit Sarkar
Unit III
The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization by Krishna Kumari, Mohit Books International, New Delhi, 2011
Pp 210-242 Role of Women in Panchayati Raj
Women, Empowerment and Political Participation, ed Veena Poonacha, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai,1997
pp. 109-120 Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions: The Gujarat Experience, Kalpana Shah
pp. 143-147 The Panchayati Raj and The Rhetoric of Women’s Empowerment: The Dilemma before “Non-Party” Feminist Groups, Shiraz Balsara
Violence on Women
pp 218-262, Violence, Women’s Studies in India – A Reader, Ed. Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008
From Mathura to Manorama, Resisting Violence Against Women in India, by Kalpana Kannabiran & Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2007
Unit IV
Gender Within The Human Rights Discourse, Veena Poonacha, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai,1995-2007
Unit V
Women’s Studies in India – A Reader, Ed. Mary E John, Penguin Books, 2008
pp 364 Backpain, the Feminine Affliction, by Veena Shatrugna, Nirmala Soundarajan, P. Sundaraiah, Leela Ramam
pp 371 Contraceptive research: Is there a Gender-Neutral Approach? By Vineeta Bal, Vani Subramaniam and Laxmi Murthy, Saheli
pp.381 Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective by Imrana Qadeer
pp. 387 Our Health Our Heritage by Shodhini
GENERAL READING
Rewriting History, The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, by Uma Chakravarti, Zubaan, New Delhi 2006
The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner, OUP, Oxford, 1987
The Issues at Stake by Nandita Gandhi, Nandita Shah, Kali for Women, 1991
Recasting Women, Essays in Colonial History, Eds. Sudesh Vaid and Kumkum Sangari, Zubaan, 2009
Gendering Caste by Uma Chakravarti, Stree, Calcutta 2009
The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization by Krishna Kumari, Mohit Books International, New Delhi, 2011
Pp164-209 Defining Feminism in the Indian Context
Youth Cultures, WS 08, Batch of 2011, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Pune, 2011
Exploring the Popular Texts, Identities and Politics, Foreword by Uma Chakravarti, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Pune, 2008
Books on Women
- Memories of a Rolling Stone, Vina Mazumdar, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2010
- Pandita Ramabai’s Feminist and Christian Conversions, Meera Kosambi, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai,1995
- Fragments of a Life, A Family Archive, Mythily Sivaraman, Zubaan, New Delhi 2006
- Because I am a Woman, A Child Widow’s memoirs from Colonial India, Haimabati Sen, Translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri, Introduction by Geraldine Forbes, Chronicle Books, New Delhi 2011
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Jasleen Dhamija, NBT, India, 2007
- We Also Made History – Women in the Ambedkarite Movement, Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon, Translated by Wandana Sonalkar, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2008
Iyer, Padma, Human Rights of Women, Pointer Publishers, Jaipur, 2006
pp 265-296, Krishnan, Sumi, Genderscapes: Understanding Why Gender Bias Persists in Natural Resources Management, in ed. Banerjee, Nirmala, Sen Samita, and Dhawan, Nandita, Mappiing the Field, Gender Relations in Contemporary India, Volume 2, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Stree, Kolkata, 2012
Media
pp 79-137 Role of Media in Women Development in Sharma, Rashmi, Women Development, Regal Publication New Delhi, 2009
Chakravarty, Jaya, Media and Women’s Development, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi, 2007
