WOMEN AND SOCIETY (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24CWMS 101
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to develop insights into women’s position in social institutions and concerns revolving around their identities.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

title

 

24CWMS101

Women and Society

(Theory)

CO1 Analyze the basic perspectives of Women’s studies.

CO2 Formulate solutions for women’s exploitation. Locate the status of women in various social institutions

CO3 Assess the theoretical concepts for understanding several policies on women.

CO4: Critically examine the representation of women’s issues in media.

CO5: Review the image of women in several literary texts.

CO6: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Power Point Presentations, Discussion, Tutorials

 

Learning activities for the students:

Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

Unit I: 
Introduction to Women’s Studies

 

  • Emergence of Women’s Studies in India as an academic discipline
  • Establishment of Centre for Women’s Studies under UGC guidelines
  • Women’s Studies in International Settings
  • Growth and changing perspectives of Women’s Studies and Research

 

 

                                                                                                                    

18.00
Unit II: 
Basic Concepts
  • Understanding Sex- Gender
  • Gender shaping Institutions, Theories of Gender construction
18.00
Unit III: 
Patriarchy:Meaning and Theories
  • Understanding Patriarchy and Theories of Patriarchy, Private – Public dichotomy,
  • Sexual Dvision of Work
  • Patriarchy practices in different institutions and Text Books,

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Representation of Women in Culture and Media
  • Women and Mass Media- Print Media
  • Women and Mass Media-Electronic Media
  • Women and Films, Advertisements, Mega Serials
  • Stereotyping and breaking the norms of women’s roles

 

18.00
Unit V: 
Women and Literature
  • Women’s Representation in Literary Texts: With special reference to Novels of
  • Ashapurna Devi: Trilogy- ‘PrathamPratishruti’, ‘Subarnalata’ and ‘Bakulkatha’

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  1. Ashapurna Devi, Novel- (1) PrathamPratishruti, (2) Subarnalata, (3)Bakulkatha
  2. SharmilaRega, (edt), Sociology and Gender: The Challenges of Feminist Sociological Knowledge, Sage, New Delhi,2003
  3. Indu Prakash Singh, Indian Women: The Power trapped, galaxy Pub, New Delhi, 1991

 

References: 

 Suggested Readings:

  1. BasabiChakrabarti, Women's Studies: Various Aspects.UrbiPrakashani2014
  2. ArvindNarrain. Queer: Despised Sexuality Law and Social Change. Book for Change. 2005
  3. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke UniversityPress
  4. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Routledge,1990
  5. UrvashiButalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Penguin Books India.1998
  6. Flavia Agnes. Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India. Oxford University Press,2001
  7. Sonia Bathla, Women, Democracy and the Media: Cultural and Political Representations in the Indian Press, Sage, New Delhi,1998.
  8. Mary E. John. Women's Studies in India: A reader. Penguin Books.2008
  9. Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton,1963
  10. VeenaMajumdar. “Report on the committee on the Status of Women: Towards Equality”. Journal of Women Studies.1974
  11. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, (edts) Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. Volumes I & II ,OUP
  12. Basabi Chakraborty and RajashreeBasu, ‘PrasangaManabividya’,(Bengali)
  13. MallikaSengupta, ‘StreeLingaNirman,’(Bengali)
  14. PulakChanda,NariBiswa(Bengali)
  15. Basabi Chakraborty, Nariprithibibohuswar(Bengali)
  16. Karen Ross and Stephen Coleman.The Media and thePublic’
  17. Karen Ross. ‘The Handbook of Gender, Sex andMedia,’
  18. David Gauntlett. ‘Media, Gender andIdentity,’
  19. Sudha Raj , Films andFeminism
  20. KamlaBhasin. What is Patriarchy?” Kali For Women, New Delhi.1993
  21. DipannitaDatta, Ashapurna Devi and Feminist Consciousness in Bengal:A Bio- critical Reading,OUP
  22. VidyutBhagwat. (2004). “Feminist Social Thought: an Introduction to six key Thinkers”. Publisher Rawat Publications, NewDelhi.
  23. Radhika Chopra (ed.): Reframing Masculinities Narrating the Supportive of Man, Delhi, 2006
  24. V. Geetha, Understanding Gender, Calcutta,2006
  25. David Glover and Cora Kaplan : Genders, New York ,2009
  26. KamlaBhasin : Exploring Masculinity, New Delhi,2004

 

e-resources

1.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2415862

Journals:

 1. Indian Journal of Women Studies

 

Academic Session: 
2024-25
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