Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : HS5313 : Gender and Development { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Dr. Koteswara Rao Kodirekkala
Syllabus
- Feminist Perspectives on Gender (gender and participatory development)
- Patriarchy and Power Relations (Men, Masculinity and ‘Gender in Development’)
- Marxist/Liberalist Perspective of Feminism
- Feminist Movement (women and social movement of the 1960s)
- Feminine Mistake
- Violence Against Women/ sexual harassment (narratives of gender violence)
- Globalization/Post-modernism and Feminism
- Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
- Development Theory and Gendered Approach to Development
Course Objectives
- It introduces students to concepts such as gender and sexuality, both historical and contemporary. Practice of concepts such as gender-equality or gender-neutrality is achieved in everyday work.
Course Outcomes
It introduces students to concepts such as gender and sexuality, both historical and contemporary. Practice of concepts such as gender-equality or gender-neutrality is achieved in everyday work.
Essential Reading
- Butler, Judith., Gender Trouble, Routledge , NA
- Wollstonecraft, Mary., A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, New York, Penguin Books , NA
Supplementary Reading
- de Beauvoir, Simone., The Second Sex, Vintage, 1989. , NA
- Dreger, Alice., Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex., Cambridge: Harvard University Press , NA
Journal and Conferences
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