State Ideology and Law in India

Paper Code: 
WMS-123
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To understand the way women are perceived in Indian State ideology and the various laws in India related to women. To see how this furthers active citizenship to make spaces for women visible in these spheres.

12.00

Creating Gendered Citizens: Education and Gender Socialisation

  1. Educating Women as Wives and Mothers: Class and colonial imperatives in the 19th and 20th centuries – Reform Movements.
  2. Contemporary debates and policies on women welfare and education.

 

12.00

Gendering and State

  1. Ideologies of the State: the paternalism of the modern state.
  2. Questions of Citizenship: formal equality and substantive equality in Indian Constitution
12.00

Contemporary Legal Systems:

1)   Inside the Family: personal codes; marriage, inheritance and guardianship.

2)   Laws for working women: maternity benefits and child care.

3)   Defining Sexual crimes: rape, sexual harassment in workplace.

12.00

Women’s Movement and Law.

  1. Transforming the laws on rape, dowry murders, sati.
  2. Analysing the experience of working with the state: Contemporary debates in the women’s movement
12.00

73rd and 74th Amendments: Political spaces gained by women through the Panchayati Raj Institutions and Local Self Governments and gaps that remain.

References: 
  1. Singh, Dr. Hoshiar; Local Government, pp 1-17, 19-36, Kitab Mahal, Allahabad, 1997, 
  2. Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  3. Poonacha, Veena, ed. Women, Empowerment and Political Participation, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1997
  4. Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  5. 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
  6. Buch, Nirmala; Women and Panchayats: Opportunities and Challenges pp 343-365, in Jain, L C, ed. Decentralisation and Local Governance, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2005
  7. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  8. Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  9. Rao N, Rump L & Sudershan R (ed.), Site of Change, UNDP, New Delhi, 1996
  10. Singh, Dr. Hoshiar; Local Government, pp 1-17, 19-36, Kitab Mahal, Allahabad, 1997, 
  11. Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  12. Poonacha, Veena, ed. Women, Empowerment and Political Participation, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1997
  13. Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  14. 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
  15. Buch, Nirmala; Women and Panchayats: Opportunities and Challenges pp 343-365, in Jain, L C, ed. Decentralisation and Local Governance, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2005
  16. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  17. Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  18. Rao N, Rump L & Sudershan R (ed.), Site of Change, UNDP, New Delhi, 1996
Academic Session: 
2015-16
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