Women and Media

Paper Code: 
WMS 502
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper acquaints students to media unlearning ways of seeing so as to be able to perceive representation of women in it. It further enables them to see the subtle construction of women and thus be able to not only deconstruct oneself, but also question and change the representations of women in media.

9.00
Unit I: 
Ways of seeing and representing women in media

Ways of seeing and representing women in media – News in print-media.

9.00
Unit II: 
Women’s issues in Media

Women’s issues in Media: Education, Dowry, Female Foeticide, Honour Killing and Working Women

Language in media with relation to above mentioned women’s issues

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Construction of Women in TV Soaps

Construction of Women in TV Soaps – I Black and White; II Colour; III Cable and Satellite

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Construction of Stereotypical Women in Films

Construction of Stereotypical Women in Films, Five Stages of 25 years each or with representative Directors

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Objectification of women in Advertisements

Objectification of women with reference to Advertisements

Essential Readings: 

Unit I to V

Notes made by Nandini Dusad

Sharma, Kalpana, Missing Half The Story, Zubaan, 2010

Literature and Media, pp 580-3, 618-620 in Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008

References: 
  1. Kosambi, Meera; ed. Women’s Oppression in the Public Gaze, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, 1994
  2. Murthy,C.S.H.N.; Media Education in Third World, pp 266-281, Kanishka Publishers, Distributers, New Delhi, 2007
  3. Verma, N.K.; Media Ethics in Twentieth Century, SumitEnterprizes, New Delhi, 2006
  4. Mazumdar, Ranjani; Bombay Cinema – Introduction pp xvii-xxxvii, Desiring Women pp79-109, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2007
  5. Johnson, Kirk, Television and Social Change in Rural India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2000, pp 9-69, 190-248
  6. Gupta, V.S., ‘Women Empowerment- Role of Media, Beijing and Beyond’, in Communication Technology, Media Policy and National Development, Concept Publishing, New Delhi 1999 pp 164-173
  7. Joseph, Ammu and Sharma, Kalpana, Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues, Sage 2006
  8. Sharma, Omprakash, LahukaaEk Rang hai, Vividha Mahila AalekhanevamSandharbh Kendra, Jaipur, 2005 pp 95-112
  9. Jhunjhunwala, Bharat evamMadhu , SaamaajikPatrakaarita, Shri NatarajPrakaashan, Dilli, 2005 pp 122-143 (mahila), 210-221(jansankhyaa)
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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