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.
Women’s Movement in India : Concept, nature and dynamics.
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)
Women’s Movement in Post Independence India -
Women welfare and rights: Legislative measures; CEDAW in relation to India
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
Women’s Movement and Women Studies: Interface, Links and Dynamics.
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
Veena 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