Women and Media

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

The objectives of this course are-

  1. To evaluate the women’s representation in media.
  2. To make students examine the objectification of women in media.

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 502

Women and Media

CO 53: Identify and question the representation of women in media.

CO 54: Critically judge the representation of women’s issues in media.

CO 55: Examine the stereotypes set in TV shows and cinema.

CO 56: Develop critical insights for deconstructing stereotypes in all forms of media.

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

 

9.00
  • 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
  • Construction of Women in TV Soaps – I Black and White; II Colour; III Cable and Satellite

 

9.00
  • Construction of Stereotypical Women in Films, Five Stages of 25 years each or with representative Directors

 

9.00
  • Objectification of women with reference to Advertisements

 

References: 

·      Kosambi, Meera; ed. Women’s Oppression in the Public Gaze, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, 1994

·      Murthy,C.S.H.N.; Media Education in Third World, pp 266-281, Kanishka Publishers, Distributers, New Delhi, 2007

·      Verma, N.K.; Media Ethics in Twentieth Century, Sumit Enterprizes, New Delhi, 2006

·      Mazumdar, Ranjani; Bombay Cinema – Introduction pp xvii-xxxvii, Desiring Women pp79-109, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2007

·      In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Literature and Media, pp 583-627

·      Johnson, Kirk, Television and Social Change in Rural India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2000, pp 9-69, 190-248

·      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

·      Joseph, Ammu and Sharma, Kalpana, Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues, Sage 2006

·      Sharma, Omprakash, Lahu kaa Ek Rang hai, Vividha Mahila Aalekhan evam Sandharbh Kendra, Jaipur, 2005 pp 95-112

Jhunjhunwala, Bharat evam Madhu , Saamaajik Patrakaarita, Shri Nataraj Prakaashan, Dilli, 2005 pp 122-143 (mahila), 210-221(jansankhyaa)

Academic Session: 
2021-22
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