HISTORY OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA(THEORY)

Paper Code:

WMS 102

Credits:

Contact Hours:

45.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Course Outcome

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

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

CO 5: Outline the role of women in several social movements.

CO 6: Critically study the several women’s movements of the local region.

CO 7: Identify the contribution of several pioneers of the field.

CO 8: Develop insights for understanding the dynamics of women’s movements in co-relation to women’s studies.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments,Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

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9.00

Women Movement in Pre- Independence India - Indian Women and the Freedom Movement: Role of women in non-violence movement, Indian National Army; and Revolutionary movement – Bengal (as example).

9.00

9.00

Pioneers of Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement – Neera Desai, Vina Mazumdar, Maitreyi Krishnaraj, Bina Agarwal

9.00

Essential Readings:

Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Introduction; 1-19
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, Introduction pp 7-29
Geraldine Forbes, Indian Women and the Freedom Movement: A Historian’s Perspective, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1997
Veena Mazumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi 2010 Introduction
RCWS News letter, IAWS Newsletter
Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, Introduction; 1-19
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, Introduction pp 7-29
Sen, Ilina. (ed.) A Space within a Struggle: Women’s Participation in People’s Movement, Kali for Women, 1990
Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah, Issue at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women's Movement in India, Kali, Delhi, 1991
S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
Bina Agarwal, Gender and Command over Property: An Economic Analysis of South Asia, Women Unlimited(an associate of Kali for Women) New Delhi, 1996
Menon, N. (ed.), Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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