WOMEN AND SOCIETY

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

Course Outcomes(COs):

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

CO1: Analyze the basic perspectives of Women’s studies.

CO2: Formulate problems and 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.

Interactive Lectures, Power Point Presentations, Discussion, Tutorials, 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

  

 

15.00
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
15.00
Unit II: 
Basic Concepts

 

  • Understanding Sex- Gender
  • Gender shaping Institutions, Theories of Gender construction

 

15.00
Unit III: 
Understanding Sexism and Androcentrism

 

  • Understanding Patriarchy and Theories of Patriarchy, Private – Public dichotomy,
  • Sexual Division of Work
  • Patriarchy practices in different institutions and Text Books
15.00
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
15.00
Unit V: 
Women and Literature

 

  • Women’s Writings in India
  • Women’s Representation in Literary Texts: With special reference to Novels of
  • Ashapurna Devi: Trilogy- ‘PrathamPratishruti’, ‘Subarnalata’ and ‘Bakulkatha’
Essential Readings: 
  • Ashapurna Devi, Novel- (1) PrathamPratishruti, (2) Subarnalata, (3) Bakulkatha
  • SharmilaRega, (edt), Sociology and Gender: The Challenges of Feminist Sociological Knowledge, Sage, New Delhi, 2003
  • Indu Prakash Singh, Indian Women: The Power trapped, galaxy Pub, New Delhi, 1991

 

 

References: 

  • SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

    •      BasabiChakrabarti, Women's Studies: Various Aspects. UrbiPrakashani2014

    •      ArvindNarrain. Queer: Despised Sexuality Law and Social Change. Book for Change. 2005

    •      Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke University Press

    •      Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Routledge, 1990

    •      UrvashiButalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Penguin Books India. 1998

    •      Flavia Agnes. Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women's Rights in India. Oxford University Press, 2001

    •      Sonia Bathla, Women, Democracy and the Media: Cultural and Political Representations in the Indian Press, Sage, New Delhi, 1998.

    •      Mary E. John. Women's Studies in India: A reader. Penguin Books. 2008

    •      Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 1963

    •      VeenaMajumdar. “Report on the committee on the Status of Women: Towards Equality”. Journal of Women Studies. 1974

    •      Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, (edts) Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. Volumes I & II , OUP

    •      Basabi Chakraborty and RajashreeBasu, ‘PrasangaManabividya’ ,(Bengali)

    •      MallikaSengupta, ‘StreeLingaNirman,’ (Bengali)

    •      PulakChanda, NariBiswa(Bengali)

    •      Basabi Chakraborty, Nariprithibibohuswar (Bengali)

    •      Karen Ross and Stephen Coleman.The Media and the Public’

    •      Karen Ross. ‘The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media,’

    •      David Gauntlett. ‘Media, Gender and Identity,’

    •      Sudha Raj , Films and Feminism

    •      KamlaBhasin. What is Patriarchy?” Kali For Women, New Delhi. 1993

    •      DipannitaDatta, Ashapurna Devi and Feminist Consciousness in Bengal:A Bio- critical Reading, OUP

    •      VidyutBhagwat. (2004). “Feminist Social Thought: an Introduction to six key Thinkers”. Publisher Rawat Publications, New Delhi.

    •      Radhika Chopra (ed.): Reframing Masculinities Narrating the Supportive of Man, Delhi, 2006

    •      V. Geetha, Understanding Gender, Calcutta, 2006

    •      David Glover and Cora Kaplan : Genders, New York , 2009

    •      KamlaBhasin : Exploring Masculinity, New Delhi, 2004

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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