Introduction to Women and Development

Paper Code: 
WMS 402
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper intends to give an introductory understanding of development issue in India, UN, other International organizations and NGOs in India and their relation with women, and reservation for women in political sphere. This will make students aware of the various levels of existences to discover what it takes to make women empowered.

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Unit I: 
Women and the issues of development in India

Women and the issues of development in India: with reference to Education and Health

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Reservation for women, 73 and 74 Amendment

Reservation for women: Making of 73rd and 74th Amendments

Empowerment of women through political participation: Panchayati Raj and Municipalities

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Development of Women through Economic participation

Development of Women through Economic participation (Post Liberalization):  Public and Private Sectors

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Role of United Nations (UNIFEM), & NGO (SEWA)

Role of United Nations (UNIFEM), & NGO (SEWA) in the development of Women

 

 

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Assessing and analyzing developmental issues

Assessing and analyzing developmental issues and their impact on women (Eco-feminism).

Essential Readings: 

Unit I        In WSI 2008

Sarkar, Tanika, Strishiksha or Education for Women

Education for Women’s Equality: National Policy on Education 1986

Unit II

p.105, pp.139-142 Mazumdar, Vina, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2010

Unit III

pp 1-5, Poonacha, Veena, Women in Decision Making in Private Sector in India, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1996

pp 194-202 John, Mary, Feminism, Poverty and Globalisation, in WSI 2008

pp 202-211 Banerjee, Nirmala, How Real is the Bogey of Feminisation, in WSI 2008

Unit IV     

pp 98-105 Agnihotri, Indu, Fourth World Conference on Women A Report from China

                          pp 198-199 WSI, 2008 SEWA

Unit V               Warren, Karen, Ecofeminism, Women, Culture, Nature, Rawat Publication, 2014

Vandana Shiva, Globalization New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Form, Women Unlimited, 2005

References: 
  1. Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  2. Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  3. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  4. Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  5. Kabeer, N., Reversed Realities, London: Verso, 1995.
  6. Hasan, Zoya (ed.) Forging Identities: Gender Communities and State, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1994
  7. 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
  8. Rao N, Rump L &Sudershan R (ed.), Site of Change, UNDP, New Delhi, 1996
  9. Janaki Nair, Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1996
  10. Lucy Caroll, The Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu ‘Widow’s Remarriage Act of 1856’ in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989.
  11. Agarwal, Bina, Field of her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  12. JC Johri, Principals of Modern Political Science, Sterling Publisher, 1995
  13. Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Terrains, Kali for Women, Delhi 1996
  14. Butalia U, Sarkar, T (ed.), Women and the Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi 1996.
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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