HISTORY OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA(THEORY)

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

 

Course Outcome

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

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.

 

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments,Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00
  • Women’s Movement in India : Concept, nature and dynamics.

 

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

 

 

9.00
  • 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
  • Women’s Movement and Women Studies:  Interface, Links and Dynamics.

 

Essential Readings: 
  • 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: 
2022-23
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