Eligibility
Graduate degree
50% in the Admission Test (Written and Interview) conducted by the KSP
Women’s Studies Centre
Course Description
This Course (32 credits) is spread over two semesters. Each Semester includes four
papers of 100 marks (4 credits) each. For each paper, there will be internal evaluation for
50 marks and the external evaluation for 50 marks. There will be special workshops,
films and visits as part of the course. In each semester, the students can opt for 4 credits
outside the Department. They can also opt for dissertation in the second semester.
Total marks for evaluation are 800.
Passing marks: 40%
Objectives
This Course is launched with the following aims:
It seeks to provide the participants the knowledge, skills and information in the field of
gender, culture and development so as to enable them-
to work as gender experts in the fields of media- print and electronic- and that of
information and communication technology, and
to pursue career in the area of corporate social responsibility
This Course intends to engage participants in the following:
Mapping and analyzing perspectives, issues and debates in the field of
development from gender perspectives
Examining through a gender lens, inter-linkages between cultural practices, social
processes and development approaches
Understanding feminisms in global and local contexts and mapping feminist
interventions in knowledge
Doing a dissertation – from drawing up a proposal – to writing the project.
Core Courses
WS 1: Feminist Thought and Feminist Theory (Semester I)
WS 2: Development: Gender Perspectives (Semester I)
WS 6: Feminisms: Global and Local (Semester II)
WS 7: Gender, Culture and Development: Theoretical Perspectives (Semester II)
2
Optional Courses
Semester I:
WS 3: Gendering Social History
WS 4: Legal Terrains: Gender Concerns
WS 5: Open Course
Semester II:
WS 8: Culture: Gender Perspectives
WS 9: Open Course
WS 10: Dissertation
Semester I
WS 1: Feminist Thought and Feminist Theory
Module I
Introduction to Concepts in Feminisms: Feminism, Woman/Gender, Sexual Division of
Labour, Patriarchy
Module II
Feminist Thought: An Introduction to Vintage Feminisms
Module III
Feminist Classics: Key Thinkers, Introduction to Classics in the Third World
Module IV
Second Wave Feminist Theory: Liberal, Radical, Marxist-Socialist Foundations of
Feminist Theories
Module V
Challenges to Feminist Theory: Black Feminist Theories, Third World- Centered
Feminist Theories
Readings:
Bhagwat Vidyut, Feminist Social Thought, New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2004.
Clough P, Feminist Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994.
Collins, P. H., Black Feminist Thought, London, Routledge, 2000.
Eagleton M. (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory, Blackwell
Publishing, 2003.
Kaplan C., Genders, London, Routledge, 2000.
Nicholson L. (ed.), The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, New York,
Routledge, 1997.
Schneir M, The Vintage Book of Historical Feminism, London, Vintage, 1972.
3
WS 2: Development: Gender Perspectives
Module I
Feminism and Development: Emergence of Women as a Constituency in Development:
WID, WAD And GAD
Module II
Gender, Development and the Indian Nation State: Landmark Policies, Plans, Reports
and Commissions
Module III
Women’s Movements in India: Post- 1975 Campaigns, Issues, Challenges
Module IV
Gender and Institutions: Labour, Politics, Family and Household
Module V
Gender and Institutions: Health and Sexuality, Law, Education
Readings:
Gandhi N and N. Shah, Issues at stake, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1992.
Haggis and Schech, Culture and Development, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000.
Kabeer N., Reversed Realities, London, Verso 1995.
Kapadia K. (ed.), Violence of Development: The politics of identity, gender and
social inequalities in India, New Delhi, Zubaan, 2002.
Menon, N. (ed.), Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 1999.
Rao, N., Rurup, L and R Sudarshan (eds), Sites of Changes, New Delhi, UNDP
and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1995.
Visvanathan N., Duggan L., Nisonoff L. and N. Wiegersma (eds.), The Women,
Gender and Development Reader, New Delhi, Zubaan, 1997.
WS 3: Gendering Social History
Module I
In Search of Our Pasts: The Significance of History: Why Social History, Different
Perspectives, Debates in Feminist Historiography (Feminist Engagements with Left/
Non-Brahmin/ Subaltern/ Post Colonial)
Module II
Rewriting Histories: Feminist Interrogation of Periodization of Indian History:
Who Was the Vedic Dasi?, The ‘Saint Poetesses of Medieval India’, ‘The Prostitute’ in
Colonial India, Locating Women in Social Movements in Colonial India
4
Module III
Recasting of Women in Modern Social Institutions in India:
Reconstitution of Marriage and Family, Formation of Classes, Caste Reformulations,
Rise of Nation and Nationalisms, Reconstitutions of Communities
Module IV
Doing Social History: From Gender and Caste Perspective
Readings From Mahatma Phule, Tarabai Shinde, Pandita Ramabai, E.V. Ramaswamy
Periyar, Mahatama Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Module V
Rewriting Social History: History, Memory and Gender
Reading from Women’s Voices and Writings of Women in Satyashodhak, Self Respect
Movement, Gandhian and Ambedkarite Movement
Readings:
Geetha V. and S. Rajadurai, Towards Non-brahman Millenium, Calcutta, Samya,
1998.
Gupta C., Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and Hindu Public
in Colonial India, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Pardeshi P., Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the Women’s Question in India, Pune,
KSP Women’s Studies Centre, 1998.
Roy K. (ed.), Women in Early Indian Societies, New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Scott J. (ed.), Feminism and History, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Vaid S and K. Sangari, Recasting Women, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989.
Chakravarti U., Rewriting History: Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, New
Delhi, Kali for Women, 1994.
WS 4: Legal Terrains: Gender Concerns
Module I
Introduction to Feminist Theory and Their Perspectives on Law, Turning the Gaze back
on Itself: Race and Gender in International Human Rights Law
Module II
Feminist Terrains in Legal Domain: Introduction to Legal Campaigns and Legal Studies
in India, Law as a Subversive Site: Feminist Perspectives
Module III
Women and Law in Colonial India: A Feminist Social History (Labour Legislation,
Personal Laws), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State
5
Module IV
Sexual Violence and the Binary Logic of Law (Rape, Sexual Harassment)
Women, Citizenship, Law and the Indian State (Ameena Case)
Outlaw Women (Phoolan Case)
Module V
Enforcing Cultural Codes (Case of ‘Honour Killings’)
Women between Community and the State: Uniform Civil Code Debate
Readings:
Butalia, U. and T Sarkar, (eds.), Women and the Hindu Right, New Delhi, Kali
for women, 1996.
Cossman, B. and R. Kapur (eds.), Subversive Sites, New Delhi, Sage, 1996.
Wing, A.K., (ed.), Feminism: An International reader, New York, University
Press, 2000.
Hasan, Z. (ed.), Forging Identities: Gender, Communities and the State, New
Delhi, Kali for Women, 1994.
Menon, N., Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, New
Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004.
Sangari, K., Politics of the Possible, New Delhi, Tulika, 1999.
Sunder Rajan, R., The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in
Postcolonial India, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004.
WS 5: Open Course
Semester II
WS 6: Feminisms: Global and Local
Module I
Feminisms and Internationalisms, Gender and UN Conferences, Conventions,
Committees
Module II
Third World Feminism and the Dislocation of Cultures
Module III
Global Feminism Since 1945: Debate over local/ global feminisms
Module IV
Feminisms in South Asia: Contexts, Issues and Perspectives
Module V
Feminisms in India: Perspectives and debates
6
Readings:
Basu A. (ed), The challenge of Local Feminism: Women’s Movement in Global
perspective, Boulder Co, West view Press, 1995.
Bhasin K. Menon R. et al (eds), Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion
and Development From India and Pakistan, 1994.
Mogdham V. M., Identity Politics and Women Cultural Assertions and
Feminisms in International Perspective, Boulder Co, West view Press, 1994.
Narayan U., Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World
Feminism. London, Rout ledge, 1997.
Sharma R. (ed), Representations of Gender, Democracy and Identity Politics in
Relation to South Asia, New Delhi, Satguru, 1996.
Smith B., Global Feminisms since 1945: Rewriting Histories, London, Routledge,
2000.
WS 7: Gender, Culture and Development: Theoretical Perspectives
Module I
Trends in Development Theory and the Cultural Turn
Module II
Alternative Development, Post-Development and Supply Side Approaches
Module III
Women, Development and Feminist Development Theory
Module IV
Feminist Post- Development Approaches and their Critiques: Review of Shiva, Datar,
Dietrich, Agarwal and Nanda
Module V
The Science and Body Question in Development
Readings:
Datar C. (ed), Nuturing Nature, Mumbai, Earth Care Books, 1998.
DAWN [Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era], Markers on the
Way: the dawn Debates on Alternative Development, Dawn Publications, 1995.
Kapadia K. (ed), The Violence of Development: The Politics of Identity, Gender and
Social Inequalities in India, Kali, New Delhi, 2002.
Mies M and V. Shiva, Ecofeminism, Halifax, Fernwood Publications, 1993.
Pieterse J. N., Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions, New Delhi,
Vistaar, 2001.
Saunders K. (ed), Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Postcolonialism
and Representation, London, Zed Books, 2002.
7
WS 8: Culture: Gender Perspectives
Module I
Gender and Culture: Basic Concepts, Approaches to the Study of Culture
Feminist Renderings of Representation, Ideology, Hegemony, Folk- Popular- Public
Culture
Module II
Studying Cultural Practices: A Gender, Caste And Class Perspective: Indian Television,
Cinema, and Oral Traditions
Module III
Studying Cultural Practices: A Gender, Caste And Class Perspective: Women Writing in
India, Print media
Module IV
Myths/Mythology, Religious Practices: Gender Concerns:
Mother Goddess, Reading ‘Sita’, Engaging with Women in Sufism, Buddhist Bhikunis
and Therigathas
Module V
Untangling Contemporary Cases/ Issues: Shah Bano and Roop Kanwar Cases, Practices
of Anti- Mandal Protests, Controversies Against Beauty Contests/ Dress Code, ‘Fire’
Controversy
Readings:
Das V., Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Dwyer R. and C. Pinney, Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and
Consumption of Public Culture in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
2001.
Joseph S., Interrogating Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Social
Theory, New Delhi Sage, 1998.
Mankekar P., Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: Television, Womanhood and
Nation in Modern India, New Delhi, 2005.
Niranjana T, V. Dhareshwar (eds), Interrogating Modernity: Culture and
Colonialism in India, Calcutta, Seagull, 1993.
Tharu S, and K Lalitha, Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present), New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Uberoi P., Freedom and Destiny. Gender, Family, and Popular Culture in India,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006.
WS 9: Open Course
8
WS 10: Dissertation
Through these two semesters, an attempt will be made to build following skills
among course participants through internal assignments and special workshops.
Concretizing and Locating a Theoretical Perspective in Material Conditions
Analyzing Contemporary Issues/ Legal Cases Using Feminist Perspectives
Tracing Many Paths to Feminism
Mapping Feminist Scholarship Emerging from Women’s Movement, Academy
and NGOs
Reading and analyzing statistical reports / Summarizing reports, policy
recommendations / Preparing resource list
Writing Press Notes, Newspaper Features, Blogs etc.
Analysing Structures, Strategies and Semiotic Codes in Film/ Television Serial/
any Cultural Practice
Collating and Collecting Visual, Oral, Literary Documents
Audio- Visual Presentation of Cultural Practices
Using Primary Sources- Archives, Literary Texts, Oral Narratives
Revisiting Secondary Sources to Rewrite Feminist History
Mapping Feminist Tour of sites in Villages, Cities and Towns
Critical Review of the Research Reports of NGOs, Research Institutes and Fact
Finding Reports of the Movement
Rereading Texts: Making Critical Notes (Drawing Information from the Available
Research)
Documenting development alternatives
Documenting inequalities through quantitative methods and local surveys
Understanding processes and procedures of campaign building
Preparing small handbills, speeches, posters, skits, role-plays to democratize
knowledge of law to diverse groups
Graduate degree
50% in the Admission Test (Written and Interview) conducted by the KSP
Women’s Studies Centre
Course Description
This Course (32 credits) is spread over two semesters. Each Semester includes four
papers of 100 marks (4 credits) each. For each paper, there will be internal evaluation for
50 marks and the external evaluation for 50 marks. There will be special workshops,
films and visits as part of the course. In each semester, the students can opt for 4 credits
outside the Department. They can also opt for dissertation in the second semester.
Total marks for evaluation are 800.
Passing marks: 40%
Objectives
This Course is launched with the following aims:
It seeks to provide the participants the knowledge, skills and information in the field of
gender, culture and development so as to enable them-
to work as gender experts in the fields of media- print and electronic- and that of
information and communication technology, and
to pursue career in the area of corporate social responsibility
This Course intends to engage participants in the following:
Mapping and analyzing perspectives, issues and debates in the field of
development from gender perspectives
Examining through a gender lens, inter-linkages between cultural practices, social
processes and development approaches
Understanding feminisms in global and local contexts and mapping feminist
interventions in knowledge
Doing a dissertation – from drawing up a proposal – to writing the project.
Core Courses
WS 1: Feminist Thought and Feminist Theory (Semester I)
WS 2: Development: Gender Perspectives (Semester I)
WS 6: Feminisms: Global and Local (Semester II)
WS 7: Gender, Culture and Development: Theoretical Perspectives (Semester II)
2
Optional Courses
Semester I:
WS 3: Gendering Social History
WS 4: Legal Terrains: Gender Concerns
WS 5: Open Course
Semester II:
WS 8: Culture: Gender Perspectives
WS 9: Open Course
WS 10: Dissertation
Semester I
WS 1: Feminist Thought and Feminist Theory
Module I
Introduction to Concepts in Feminisms: Feminism, Woman/Gender, Sexual Division of
Labour, Patriarchy
Module II
Feminist Thought: An Introduction to Vintage Feminisms
Module III
Feminist Classics: Key Thinkers, Introduction to Classics in the Third World
Module IV
Second Wave Feminist Theory: Liberal, Radical, Marxist-Socialist Foundations of
Feminist Theories
Module V
Challenges to Feminist Theory: Black Feminist Theories, Third World- Centered
Feminist Theories
Readings:
Bhagwat Vidyut, Feminist Social Thought, New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2004.
Clough P, Feminist Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994.
Collins, P. H., Black Feminist Thought, London, Routledge, 2000.
Eagleton M. (ed.), A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory, Blackwell
Publishing, 2003.
Kaplan C., Genders, London, Routledge, 2000.
Nicholson L. (ed.), The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory, New York,
Routledge, 1997.
Schneir M, The Vintage Book of Historical Feminism, London, Vintage, 1972.
3
WS 2: Development: Gender Perspectives
Module I
Feminism and Development: Emergence of Women as a Constituency in Development:
WID, WAD And GAD
Module II
Gender, Development and the Indian Nation State: Landmark Policies, Plans, Reports
and Commissions
Module III
Women’s Movements in India: Post- 1975 Campaigns, Issues, Challenges
Module IV
Gender and Institutions: Labour, Politics, Family and Household
Module V
Gender and Institutions: Health and Sexuality, Law, Education
Readings:
Gandhi N and N. Shah, Issues at stake, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1992.
Haggis and Schech, Culture and Development, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000.
Kabeer N., Reversed Realities, London, Verso 1995.
Kapadia K. (ed.), Violence of Development: The politics of identity, gender and
social inequalities in India, New Delhi, Zubaan, 2002.
Menon, N. (ed.), Gender and Politics in India, New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 1999.
Rao, N., Rurup, L and R Sudarshan (eds), Sites of Changes, New Delhi, UNDP
and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1995.
Visvanathan N., Duggan L., Nisonoff L. and N. Wiegersma (eds.), The Women,
Gender and Development Reader, New Delhi, Zubaan, 1997.
WS 3: Gendering Social History
Module I
In Search of Our Pasts: The Significance of History: Why Social History, Different
Perspectives, Debates in Feminist Historiography (Feminist Engagements with Left/
Non-Brahmin/ Subaltern/ Post Colonial)
Module II
Rewriting Histories: Feminist Interrogation of Periodization of Indian History:
Who Was the Vedic Dasi?, The ‘Saint Poetesses of Medieval India’, ‘The Prostitute’ in
Colonial India, Locating Women in Social Movements in Colonial India
4
Module III
Recasting of Women in Modern Social Institutions in India:
Reconstitution of Marriage and Family, Formation of Classes, Caste Reformulations,
Rise of Nation and Nationalisms, Reconstitutions of Communities
Module IV
Doing Social History: From Gender and Caste Perspective
Readings From Mahatma Phule, Tarabai Shinde, Pandita Ramabai, E.V. Ramaswamy
Periyar, Mahatama Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Module V
Rewriting Social History: History, Memory and Gender
Reading from Women’s Voices and Writings of Women in Satyashodhak, Self Respect
Movement, Gandhian and Ambedkarite Movement
Readings:
Geetha V. and S. Rajadurai, Towards Non-brahman Millenium, Calcutta, Samya,
1998.
Gupta C., Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and Hindu Public
in Colonial India, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Pardeshi P., Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the Women’s Question in India, Pune,
KSP Women’s Studies Centre, 1998.
Roy K. (ed.), Women in Early Indian Societies, New Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Scott J. (ed.), Feminism and History, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Vaid S and K. Sangari, Recasting Women, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989.
Chakravarti U., Rewriting History: Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, New
Delhi, Kali for Women, 1994.
WS 4: Legal Terrains: Gender Concerns
Module I
Introduction to Feminist Theory and Their Perspectives on Law, Turning the Gaze back
on Itself: Race and Gender in International Human Rights Law
Module II
Feminist Terrains in Legal Domain: Introduction to Legal Campaigns and Legal Studies
in India, Law as a Subversive Site: Feminist Perspectives
Module III
Women and Law in Colonial India: A Feminist Social History (Labour Legislation,
Personal Laws), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State
5
Module IV
Sexual Violence and the Binary Logic of Law (Rape, Sexual Harassment)
Women, Citizenship, Law and the Indian State (Ameena Case)
Outlaw Women (Phoolan Case)
Module V
Enforcing Cultural Codes (Case of ‘Honour Killings’)
Women between Community and the State: Uniform Civil Code Debate
Readings:
Butalia, U. and T Sarkar, (eds.), Women and the Hindu Right, New Delhi, Kali
for women, 1996.
Cossman, B. and R. Kapur (eds.), Subversive Sites, New Delhi, Sage, 1996.
Wing, A.K., (ed.), Feminism: An International reader, New York, University
Press, 2000.
Hasan, Z. (ed.), Forging Identities: Gender, Communities and the State, New
Delhi, Kali for Women, 1994.
Menon, N., Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, New
Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004.
Sangari, K., Politics of the Possible, New Delhi, Tulika, 1999.
Sunder Rajan, R., The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in
Postcolonial India, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004.
WS 5: Open Course
Semester II
WS 6: Feminisms: Global and Local
Module I
Feminisms and Internationalisms, Gender and UN Conferences, Conventions,
Committees
Module II
Third World Feminism and the Dislocation of Cultures
Module III
Global Feminism Since 1945: Debate over local/ global feminisms
Module IV
Feminisms in South Asia: Contexts, Issues and Perspectives
Module V
Feminisms in India: Perspectives and debates
6
Readings:
Basu A. (ed), The challenge of Local Feminism: Women’s Movement in Global
perspective, Boulder Co, West view Press, 1995.
Bhasin K. Menon R. et al (eds), Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion
and Development From India and Pakistan, 1994.
Mogdham V. M., Identity Politics and Women Cultural Assertions and
Feminisms in International Perspective, Boulder Co, West view Press, 1994.
Narayan U., Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World
Feminism. London, Rout ledge, 1997.
Sharma R. (ed), Representations of Gender, Democracy and Identity Politics in
Relation to South Asia, New Delhi, Satguru, 1996.
Smith B., Global Feminisms since 1945: Rewriting Histories, London, Routledge,
2000.
WS 7: Gender, Culture and Development: Theoretical Perspectives
Module I
Trends in Development Theory and the Cultural Turn
Module II
Alternative Development, Post-Development and Supply Side Approaches
Module III
Women, Development and Feminist Development Theory
Module IV
Feminist Post- Development Approaches and their Critiques: Review of Shiva, Datar,
Dietrich, Agarwal and Nanda
Module V
The Science and Body Question in Development
Readings:
Datar C. (ed), Nuturing Nature, Mumbai, Earth Care Books, 1998.
DAWN [Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era], Markers on the
Way: the dawn Debates on Alternative Development, Dawn Publications, 1995.
Kapadia K. (ed), The Violence of Development: The Politics of Identity, Gender and
Social Inequalities in India, Kali, New Delhi, 2002.
Mies M and V. Shiva, Ecofeminism, Halifax, Fernwood Publications, 1993.
Pieterse J. N., Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions, New Delhi,
Vistaar, 2001.
Saunders K. (ed), Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Postcolonialism
and Representation, London, Zed Books, 2002.
7
WS 8: Culture: Gender Perspectives
Module I
Gender and Culture: Basic Concepts, Approaches to the Study of Culture
Feminist Renderings of Representation, Ideology, Hegemony, Folk- Popular- Public
Culture
Module II
Studying Cultural Practices: A Gender, Caste And Class Perspective: Indian Television,
Cinema, and Oral Traditions
Module III
Studying Cultural Practices: A Gender, Caste And Class Perspective: Women Writing in
India, Print media
Module IV
Myths/Mythology, Religious Practices: Gender Concerns:
Mother Goddess, Reading ‘Sita’, Engaging with Women in Sufism, Buddhist Bhikunis
and Therigathas
Module V
Untangling Contemporary Cases/ Issues: Shah Bano and Roop Kanwar Cases, Practices
of Anti- Mandal Protests, Controversies Against Beauty Contests/ Dress Code, ‘Fire’
Controversy
Readings:
Das V., Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Dwyer R. and C. Pinney, Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and
Consumption of Public Culture in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
2001.
Joseph S., Interrogating Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Social
Theory, New Delhi Sage, 1998.
Mankekar P., Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: Television, Womanhood and
Nation in Modern India, New Delhi, 2005.
Niranjana T, V. Dhareshwar (eds), Interrogating Modernity: Culture and
Colonialism in India, Calcutta, Seagull, 1993.
Tharu S, and K Lalitha, Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present), New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Uberoi P., Freedom and Destiny. Gender, Family, and Popular Culture in India,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006.
WS 9: Open Course
8
WS 10: Dissertation
Through these two semesters, an attempt will be made to build following skills
among course participants through internal assignments and special workshops.
Concretizing and Locating a Theoretical Perspective in Material Conditions
Analyzing Contemporary Issues/ Legal Cases Using Feminist Perspectives
Tracing Many Paths to Feminism
Mapping Feminist Scholarship Emerging from Women’s Movement, Academy
and NGOs
Reading and analyzing statistical reports / Summarizing reports, policy
recommendations / Preparing resource list
Writing Press Notes, Newspaper Features, Blogs etc.
Analysing Structures, Strategies and Semiotic Codes in Film/ Television Serial/
any Cultural Practice
Collating and Collecting Visual, Oral, Literary Documents
Audio- Visual Presentation of Cultural Practices
Using Primary Sources- Archives, Literary Texts, Oral Narratives
Revisiting Secondary Sources to Rewrite Feminist History
Mapping Feminist Tour of sites in Villages, Cities and Towns
Critical Review of the Research Reports of NGOs, Research Institutes and Fact
Finding Reports of the Movement
Rereading Texts: Making Critical Notes (Drawing Information from the Available
Research)
Documenting development alternatives
Documenting inequalities through quantitative methods and local surveys
Understanding processes and procedures of campaign building
Preparing small handbills, speeches, posters, skits, role-plays to democratize
knowledge of law to diverse groups
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