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Sexuality, Patriarchy and Social Reproduction in India
Paper Code:
WMS-124
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This paper is an attempt to understand social reproduction and sexuality and how patriarchy plays a part in both.
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Patriarchal ideologies: question of consent, complicity, chastity, honour, legitimating of violence.
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Sex and Gender: Facts and Myths; Biological, Social, Cultural and Attitudinal factors;
Social Constructions of Sexuality
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Introduction: conceptualizing social reproduction – women’s consent; stereotyping
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The politics of procreation and sexual control: marriage, motherhood and ‘legitimate’ reproduction
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Historicizing sexuality: norms, deviance and punishment
- Courtesan traditions: The hetaira, ganika, nagarvadhu and the devadasi; Prostitution and sex work
- Renunciation and sexual abstinence: The enforced celibacy of upper caste widows.
Essential Readings:
- Background Reading (especially for those who have not studied history in college) – government high school text books of History.
- History of Ancient, Medieval, Mughal, also rise of Modern History.
- For Ancient India D.D. Kosambi, R.S. Sharma, DN Jha.
- For Ancient and Medieval World History –translation of Korovkin, and Agibalova and Donskoy
References:
- Uma Chakravarty and Kumkum Roy, In Search of Our Past: A Review of the Limitations and Possibilities of the Historiography of Women in Early India, EPW 23 WS-2-10, 1988 .
- Vijay Ramaswamy, Aspects of Women and Work in Early South India (from the same. Pp 150-171)
- Gerder Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy.
- K. Roy, article Invoking the Goddess, also article on marriage as communication.
- Kunal Chakravarti article in From Myths to Markets – Shakti-Shiva.
- Chodorow, Nancy, The Reproduction of Mothering, Berkeley
Articles from EPW
- Poonacha, Veena, ‘The Rites de Passage of Motherhood and Social Construction of Motherhood Among Coorgs in South India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 32 No 3, 18 January 1997
- EPW Issues: 30th Oct- 5th Nov 1999, 15-21st Jan 2000, 17-23rd June 2000, 24-30th June 2000, 29th July – 4th August 2000, 24-30th March 2001, 30th June- 6th July 2001
- EPW articles in Vol 25 No 41, 20-27 October 1990 Bhattacharji, Sukumari, ‘Motherhood in Ancient India’, pp Ws 50-57; Gokhale, Sane, ‘Mother in Sane Guruji’s Shamchi Ai’, pp Ws 95-103; Krishnan, Prabha, ‘In the Idiom of Loss: Ideology of Motherhood in Television Serials’, pp Ws 103-116; Lakshmi, C S, ‘Mother, Mother-Community and Mother-Politics in Tamil Nadu’, pp Ws 72-94.
- Uma Chakravarty, Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India, Gender, Caste, Class and State, EPW 28:579-85
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