Women and Family in India

Paper Code: 
WMS 202
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Family is the basic unit of protection and security is known to all. Students in this paper are made aware of the various gender construction, socialization and discrimination that happen within the family structure so as to become equipped to combat it at various stages of their personal and public lives and help others to overcome situations arising from social and individual drawbacks.

9.00
Unit I: 
Family in India

Concept and Changing Nature.

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Socialization

Concepts, Stages, and Agencies.

Socialization of Women as mothers

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Gender construction

 Gender construction of Roles and Discriminatory practices in Family.

 

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Marriage

Concepts and Changing nature

Impact of Marriage practices on women

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Introduction to Personal Laws

Introduction to Personal Laws (Marriage, Family, Inheritance) and Uniform Civil Code.

Essential Readings: 

Unit I

Uberoi, Patricia, ‘The Family in India’ pp 275-307; Dreze, Jean, ‘Patterns of Literacy and their Social Context’ in Das Veena (ed.) Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi, 2009

‘The Domestic Sphere’, pp 163-172 in Archer, John & Lloyd, Barbara, Sex and Gender, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Household and Family pp 411-414

Unit II

Dube, Leela, ‘On Construction of Gender: Hindu Girls in Patrilineal India’ in ‘Socialization, Education and Women: Exploration in Gender Identity’, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1988, pp 166-191

Development Influences (Socialization) pp 59-83 in Archer, John & Lloyd, Barbara, Sex and Gender, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

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; Poonacha Veena, ‘The Rites de Passage of Motherhood and Social Construction if Motherhood Among Coorgs in South India’, Vol 32 No 3, 18 Jan 1997 

Unit III

‘The Domestic Sphere’, pp 163-172 in Archer, John & Lloyd, Barbara, Sex and Gender, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

Unit IV

Uberoi, Patricia, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, OUP, New Delhi 1993

Unit V

Radha Kumar, History of Doing, An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993 pp 160-171

References: 
  1. Dube, Leela & Palriwala, Rajani, (eds), ‘Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family’, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990
  2. Chakraborty, Dipangshu; Atrocities on Indian Women, A P H Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1999
  3. Altekar A.S., The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, 2nd Edition, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, 1978
  4. Forbes, Geraldine, Women in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
  5. Atal, Yogesh, Changing Indian Society, Rawat Publication, 2006
  6. Sharma, K.L. Indian Social Structure and Change, Rawat Publication, 2007
  7. Kuppuswamy, B, Social Change in India, Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd, Delhi 1993
Academic Session: 
2016-17
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