WOMEN AND FAMILY IN INDIA(Theory)

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

 

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

  
 

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.

 

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
  • Family in India: Concept and Changing Nature of Position of Women

 

9.00
  • Socialization : Concepts, Stages, and Agencies.
  • Socialization of Women as mothers

 

9.00
  • Gender Construction of Roles and Discriminatory Practices in Family: Stereotyping and Menstrual Biases

 

9.00
  • Marriage: Concepts and Changing Nature – Choice and Consent in Marriage
  • Impact of marriage practices on women – Decision making

 

9.00
  • Introduction to Personal Laws: Marriage, Family and Inheritance (Hindu and Muslim Laws) Uniform Civil and Code

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Uberoi, Patricia, ‘The Family in India’ pp 275-307 in Das Veena (ed.) Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi, 2009
  • 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
  • Dube, Leela, On the Construction of Gender, WS 11-18, EPW, April 30, 1988
  • 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
  • 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

 

References: 

·      Dube, Leela&Palriwala, Rajani, (eds), ‘Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family’, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990

·      Chakraborty, Dipangshu; Atrocities on Indian Women, A P H Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1999

·      Altekar A.S., The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, 2nd Edition, MotilalBanarsidas, Delhi, 1978

·      Forbes, Geraldine, Women in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

·      Atal, Yogesh, Changing Indian Society, Rawat Publication, 2006

·      Sharma, K.L. Indian Social Structure and Change, Rawat Publication, 2007

·      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  

Academic Session: 
2022-23
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