History of Women’s Movement in India

Paper Code: 
WMS 102
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The objectives of this course are-

  1. To understand the relation between women’s studies and women’s movements.
  2. To learn about the women’s movements taken place in both pre- and post- independence India.
  3. To study the work of several experts of the field.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 102

History of Women’s Movement in India

CO 5: Outline the role of women in several social movements.

CO 6: Critically study the several women’s movements of the local region.

CO 7: Identify the contribution of several pioneers of the field.

CO 8: Develop insights for understanding the dynamics of women’s movements in co-relation to women’s studies.

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: 
Women’s Movement in India

 Concept, nature and dynamics.

9.00
Unit II: 
Women Movement in Pre- Independence India - Indian Women and the Freedom Movement

Role of women in non-violence movement, Indian National Army; and Revolutionary movement – Bengal (as example).

9.00
Unit III: 
Women’s Movement in Post Independence India
  • Women welfare and rights: Legislative measures; CEDAW in relation to India

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Pioneers of Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement
  • Neera Desai, Vina Mazumdar, Maitreyi Krishnaraj, Bina Agarwal
  • Emergence and growth of Women’s Movement in Rajasthan

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Women’s Movement and Women Studies

Interface, Links and Dynamics

References: 

References:

·      Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Introduction; 1-19

·      Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993, Introduction pp 7-29

·      Geraldine Forbes, Indian Women and the Freedom Movement: A Historian’s Perspective, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1997

·      Veena Mazumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi 2010 Introduction

·      RCWS News letter, IAWS Newsletter

·      Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Introduction; 1-19

·      Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993, Introduction pp 7-29

·      Sen, Ilina. (ed.) A Space within a Struggle: Women’s Participation in People’s Movement, Kali for Women, 1990

·      Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah,  Issue at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women's Movement in India, Kali, Delhi, 1991

·      S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996

·      Bina Agarwal, Gender and Command over Property: An Economic Analysis of South Asia, Women Unlimited(an associate of Kali for Women) New Delhi, 1996

Menon, N. (ed.), Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Academic Session: 
2021-22
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