Introduction to Women and Development(Theory)

Paper Code: 
WMS 402
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

  
 

CO 41: Discuss the developmental process of women.

CO 42: Explain the role of women in all forms of government.

CO 43: Review women’s development with reference to several International Organizations and NGOs.

CO 44: Examine women’s role in economy.

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
  • Women and the issues of development in India: with reference to Education and Health

 

9.00
  • Reservation for women: Making of 73rd and 74th Amendments
  • Empowerment of women through political participation: Panchayati Raj and Municipalities

 

9.00
  • Development of Women through Economic participation (Post Liberalization):  Public and Private Sectors

 

 

9.00
  • Role of United Nations (UNIFEM), &NGO (SEWA) in the development of Women

 

 

9.00
  • Assessing and analyzing developmental issues and their impact on women (Eco-feminism).

 

Essential Readings: 
  • In WSI 2008
  • Sarkar, Tanika, Strishiksha or Education for Women
  • Education for Women’s Equality: National Policy on Education 1986
  • p.105, pp.139-142 Mazumdar, Vina, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2010
  • pp 1-5, Poonacha, Veena, Women in Decision Making in Private Sector in India, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1996
  • pp 194-202 John, Mary, Feminism, Poverty and Globalisation, in WSI 2008
  • pp 202-211 Banerjee, Nirmala, How Real is the Bogey of Feminisation, in WSI 2008
  • pp 98-105 Agnihotri, Indu, Fourth World Conference on Women A Report from China
  • pp 198-199 SEWA
  • Warren, Karen, Ecofeminism, Women, Culture, Nature, Rawat Publication, 2014
  • Vandana Shiva, Globalization New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Form, Women Unlimited, 2005

 

References: 
  • Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  • Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  • S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  • Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  • Kabeer, N., Reversed Realities, London: Verso, 1995.
  • Hasan, Zoya (ed.) Forging Identities: Gender Communities and State, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1994
  • Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993
  • Rao N, Rump L &Sudershan R (ed.), Site of Change, UNDP, New Delhi, 1996
  • Janaki Nair, Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1996
  • Lucy Caroll, The Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu ‘Widow’s Remarriage Act of 1856’ in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989.
  • Agarwal, Bina, Field of her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  • JC Johri, Principals of Modern Political Science, Sterling Publisher, 1995
  • Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Terrains, Kali for Women, Delhi 1996
  • Butalia U, Sarkar, T (ed.), Women and the Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi 1996.

 

 

Academic Session: 
2022-23
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