Syllabus

Course Code: WS(C) 06    Course Name: Feminist Thought

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Definition and Explanation of the terms Feminism and Feminist, Emergence of Feminism with special focus on Women in the French Revolution, Suffrage Movement in the U.S.A., Suffrage Movement in the U.K. and Soviet Union, Three Waves of Feminism
2 Liberal Feminism: Marry Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Betty Friedan, Harriet Taylor, Socialist Feminism: Juliet Mitchell, Iris Young, Allison Jaggar, Marxist Feminism: Fredrick Engel, Karl Marx, Maria Mies
3 Radical Feminism: Dialectic of Sex, Gender, Patriarchy, Sexuality and Violence; Post Modern Feminism, Psycho-analytic Feminism (Freudian), Dalit Feminism, Black Feminism
4 Cultural Feminism, Eco-feminism, Recent Trends in Feminist Thinking, Queer Theory, Transgender Politics, Cyber Feminism, Future of Feminism, Search for Unity and Organizing for Change
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