Women & 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
Unit I: 
Ways of seeing and representing women in media

News in Print Media

9.00
Unit II: 
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

I Black and White; II Colour; III Cable and Satellite

9.00
Unit IV: 
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: 
  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, Sumit Enterprizes, New Delhi, 2006
  4. Mazumdar, Ranjani; Bombay Cinema – Introduction pp xvii-xxxvii, Desiring Women pp79-109, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2007
  5. In Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Literature and Media, pp 583-627
  6. Johnson, Kirk, Television and Social Change in Rural India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2000, pp 9-69, 190-248
  7. 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
  8. Joseph, Ammu and Sharma, Kalpana, Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues, Sage 2006
  9. Sharma, Omprakash, Lahu kaa Ek Rang hai, Vividha Mahila Aalekhan evam Sandharbh Kendra, Jaipur, 2005 pp 95-112
  10. Jhunjhunwala, Bharat evam Madhu , Saamaajik Patrakaarita, Shri Nataraj Prakaashan, Dilli, 2005 pp 122-143 (mahila), 210-221(jansankhyaa)
Academic Session: 
2020-21
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