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Women and Family in India
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.
Family in India: Concept and Changing Nature of Position of Women
Socialization: Concepts, Stages, and Agencies.
Socialization of Women as mothers
Gender Construction of Roles and Discriminatory Practices in Family: Stereotyping and Menstrual Biases
Marriage: Concepts and Changing Nature – Choice and Consent in Marriage
Impact of marriage practices on women – Decision making
Introduction to Personal Laws: Marriage, Family and Inheritance (Hindu and Muslim Laws) Uniform Civil and Code
Unit I
Uberoi, Patricia, ‘The Family in India’ pp 275-307 in Das Veena (ed.) Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi, 2009
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
Unit III
Dube, Leela, On the Construction of Gender, WS 11-18, EPW, April 30, 1988
Unit IV
pp 387-392 BharatiyaBhavan Series: Mazumdar, R.C., Vedic Period
pp 428-435 Tyagi Singh, Amita and Uberoi, Patricia, Learning to ‘Adjust’ in WSI 2008
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
pp.435-439 WSI, 2008 On The Uniform Civil Code: Uniformity Vs Equality, Brinda Karat
Know Your Rights: A Legal Handbook for Women, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, 2011
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
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
