Women and Family in India

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

The objectives of this course are-

  1. To introduce the students to the basics of Excel.
  2. To help them use MS Excel for diagrammatic and graphical representation of data.
  3. To help them understand solving various statistical problems with the help of Excel

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 202

Women and Family in India

CO 17: Acquaint with the stereotypical and biased practices in family structure.

CO 18: Develop the insights about socialization in co-relation to gender construction.

CO 19: Critically judge marriage practices in society.

CO 20: Discuss various legal and constitutional measures of marriage.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Family In India

Concept and Changing Nature of Position of Women

9.00
Unit II: 
Socialization

Concepts, Stages, and Agencies.

Socialization of Women as mothers

9.00
Unit III: 
Gender Construction of Roles and Discriminatory Practices in Family

Stereotyping and Menstrual Biases

9.00
Unit IV: 
Marriage

Concepts and Changing Nature – Choice and Consent in Marriage

Impact of marriage practices on women – Decision making

9.00
Unit V: 
Introduction to Personal Laws

Marriage, Family and Inheritance (Hindu and Muslim Laws) Uniform Civil and Code

Essential Readings: 
  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, MotilalBanarsidas, 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; PoonachaVeena, ‘The Rites de Passage of Motherhood and Social Construction if Motherhood Among Coorgs in South India’, Vol 32 No 3, 18 Jan 1997

References: 

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 Bharatiya Bhavan 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

P.435-439 WSI, 2008 On TheUniformcivilcode: Uniformity Vs Equality, Brinda Karat

Know Your Rights: A Legal Handbook for Women, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, 2011

Academic Session: 
2020-21
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