Gender Studies

Paper Code: 
SOC 422
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course plan focuses on the emergence of women’s movements and women’s studies in the context of feminist thought and critiques of sociological theories. The objective is to trace the evolution of gender as a category of social analysis in the late twentieth century. The course provides for a comparative perspective encompassing the developed and developing countries as also revolves around issues concerning Indian women. It is hoped that exposure to the course will lead to a better understanding of the social phenomena.

Unit I: 
  • Gender as a social construct:
    • Models of Gendered socialization
    • Cultural Symbolism and general roles
Unit II: 
  • Social Structure and Gender Inequality:
    • Patriarchy and Matriarchy
    • Division of labour: production and reproduction
Unit III: 
  • Theories of Gender Relations:
    • Liberalist
    • Radical
    • Socialist
    • Post-modernist
Unit IV: 
  • Gender and Development:
    • Effect of development policies on gender relations
    • Perspectives on gender and development: Welfarist, Developmentalist, Empowerment
Unit V: 
  • Women and Development in India:
    • Indicators of women’s status: demographic, social, economic and cultural
    • Special schemes and strategies for women’s development
    • Voluntary sector and women’s development
    • Globalization and women’s development
    • Eco-feminism
References: 
  1. Desai, Neera & M.Krishnaraj, 1987: Women and Society in India, Delhi: Ajanta
  2. Forbes, G., 1998: Women in Modern India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press
  3. Dube, Leela et al (eds.), 1986: Visibility and Power: Essays on Women in Society and Development, New Delhi: OUP
  4. Altekar, A.S., 1983: The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, Delhi, Motilal Banarasidass
  5. Chodrow, Nancy, 1978: The Reproduction of Mothering, Berkeley: University of California Press
  6. McCormac, C. & m.Strathern (ed.), 1980: Nature, Culture and Gender, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  7. Oakley, Ann, 1972: Sex, Gender and Society, New York: Harper and Row
  8. Tong, Rosemarie, 1989: Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Colarodo: Westview Press
  9. Whelman, Imelda, 1997: Modern Feminist Thought, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  10. Beaviour De Simond,2012, Second Sex, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

 

Academic Session: 
2018-19
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