History of Women’s Movement in India

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

This paper is supposed to clarify to the students the relation of Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement through the lives of women associated with it.

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.

Essential Readings: 

Unit I

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

 Unit II

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

Unit III & IV

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

RCWS News letter, IAWS Newsletter

Unit V

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

References: 
  1. Sen, Ilina. (ed.) A Space within a Struggle: Women’s Participation in People’s Movement, Kali for Women, 1990
  2. Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah,  Issue at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women's Movement in India, Kali, Delhi, 1991
  3. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  4. Bina Agarwal, Gender and Command over Property: An Economic Analysis of South Asia, Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali for Women) New Delhi, 1996
  5. Menon, N. (ed.), Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Academic Session: 
2016-17
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