Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-35(i) Course Name: Gender Studies: History & Popular Culture |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Towards Gender Studies: Sources and Approaches of Gender Studies; Women and History: Methodological and Theoretical Questions; Feminine, Masculine and Other Sexualities and Bodies – Reading Foundational Texts from Foucault to Butler; Gender, State, Nation and National Bodies: Female and Male; Reproduction and Race | |
| 2 | Women in Medieval Times: Medieval Queenship: Theory and Practice; Women in Medieval European Society – Family, Marriage, Sex, Health, Witchcraft and Religion; Female Labour and Woman Slaves in Medieval Europe; Women in Islam – The Quran, the Hadith and the Sharia; Women in Medieval Japan and China | |
| 3 | Women in Modern Age: Women in Renaissance and Reformation; Gender and the French Revolution; England – Industrialization, Victorian Age and Changing Conditions of Women; Women in Nazi Germany; Rise of Feminism in Europe and U.S.A.; Black Feminism: Theory and Praxis – Representing Black Bodies; Modern Popular Culture and Women – Imagining Masculinities and Sexualities; Obscenity and Sexuality – ‘Recalcitrant’ Women | |
| 4 | Women in Modern India: Women in Private/Public Sphere in Modern India and the Middle Class Morality; Print, Media and Women – Representations of Male and Female Bodies; Gender, Caste and Dalit Feminism; Indian Constitution and Gender Justice; Social Legislation for Women – Hindu Code Bill and its Corollary Acts; Law against Dowry, Female Infanticide, Rape and Domestic Violence; Women’s Rights – Personal Laws and Land /Property Rights; Politics of Sexuality and Voices of Women | |
