Introduction to Women and Development

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

The objectives of this course are-

  1. To introduce the students with women’s development in India.
  2. To make them review the need of reservation of women in politics.
  3. To study the role of UN and several NGOs in the development of India.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 402

Introduction to Women and Development

CO 41: Discuss the developmental process of women.

CO 42: Explain the role of women in all forms of government.

CO 43: Review women’s development with reference to several International Organizations and NGOs.

CO 44: Examine women’s role in economy.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

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

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Women and the issues of development in India

With reference to Education and Health

9.00
Unit II: 
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 (Post Liberalization)

Public and Private Sectors

9.00

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

9.00

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

Essential Readings: 
  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.
References: 

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 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

Academic Session: 
2020-21
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