Women’s Studies, Nation State and Globalisation

Paper Code: 
WMS-224
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 Women’s Studies attempts to connect the various levels of existences under globalization. This paper furthers this process in the area of militarization and hierarchies of power blocs. Media is addressed to see its connection with these spaces to search how it helps in building solidarity for dissent across the globe, women as active players in the process.

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Globalisation, Nation State and Women

 

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New Political Order: Militarisation and Conflicts; Recolonisation, the ‘North’ and ‘South’ and the Hierarchies of Power.

 

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The Media in a unipolar world

  1. Dominating World Opinion and Manufacturing Consent.
  2. The Media as an instrument of dissent; New Technologies of Resistance.

 

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Globalising Dissent

The Power of Resistance: A case study: The World Social Forum and other networks

 

 

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Transition from tribe to state, impact on women’s status in India

Essential Readings: 
  1. Orientalism: Constructing India; Abbe Dubois, Sir William Jones, Crooke, Prinsep and the Asiatic Society.
  2. James Mill and the History of British India.
  3. Spiritual India: Max Muller, Clarisse Dader from Uma Chakravarti, Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid ed. Recasting Women, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989
  4. Rammohan Roy, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar: The ‘authentic’ position of the shastras on customs, Lata Meni in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid ed. Recasting Women, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989
  5. Sumit Sarkar, Vidyasagar in Brahminical Society in Writing Social History, Delhi OUP, 1998.
  6. Cultural Crisis: Discussion on Sunil Gangopadhyaya, Shei Somoy
  7. Introduction to Recasting Women, op. cit.
  8. Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai (chapter 2) Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998.
  9. Kumkum Sangari, Relating Histories, in Svati Joshi ed. Rethinking English, Delhi, Trianka, 1991;
  10. Vir Bharat Talwar, chapter from Rasa Kashi;
  11. Himani Banerji, Inventing Subjects, Delhi, Tulika, 2001.
  12. Sir V Lal, Kunti’s Cry: Indentured Women in Fiji Plantations, in J Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India, op. cit.; Writings of Peggy Mohan;
  13. Radha Kumar, Family and Factory: Women in Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1991-1939, in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989
  14. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, OUP, 1996
  15. Gail Minault, The Extended Family, Delhi, Chanakya, 1981
  16. Gandhiji, Women and the Nation: Madhu Kishwar, Gandhi on Women, EPW, 20, nos 40-41, October 5 and 12, 1985; Sujata Patel, Gandhi and Construction and Reconstruction of Women, EPW, February 20, 1988.
  17. Naom Chomsky, Profit over People.
  18. EPW Issues  Oct 30-Nov 5 1999, Jan 15-21 2000, June 17-23, 24-30 2000, July 29- Aug 4 2000, March 24-30, 2001, June 30-July 6 2001
  19. Vikalp, Vol VII/no 3,4,5 1999/2000, Vikas Adhyan Kendra, Mumbai 
  20. Amin S, Capitalism in the age of Globalisation, Madhyam Books, New Delhi 1999
  21. Chakravarti, Uma & Sangari (ed) Myths and Market, Manohar, New Delhi, 1999
  22. Agarwal, Bina, Field of Her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  23. Singh, Yogendra, Culture, Change in India: Identity and Globalisation, Rawat, Jaipur, 2000
  24. Keily, Ray & Marfleet, Phil (eds.), Globalisation and the Third World, Routledge, London, 1988
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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