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

Women’s Movement in India (Mathura Rape case, Anti Dowry Campaign, Shah Bano Case, Anti Widow immolation): Concept, nature and dynamics.

9.00
Unit II: 
Women and the Indian Freedom Movemen

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

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Women’s Movements from Post Independence India

Women’s Movements from Post Independence India – Shahada Movement, Anti alcohol and Anti Price movement.

Women welfare and rights: Legislative measures; CEDAW in relation to India

 

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Pioneers of Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement

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

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, Campaigns against Rape (Mathura and Rameeza Bee), Widow immolation (Roop Kanwar), Dowry and Shah Bano Case

 Unit II

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

 Unit III

Matter sent on e-resource on Metacampus

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

Unit IV

    Matter sent on e-resource on Metacampus

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.
  6. Vina Mazumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi 2010 Introduction
  7. RCWS News letter, IAWS Newsletter
Academic Session: 
2019-20
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