Author: Malashri Lal
Sukrita Paul Kumar/
Editor(s): Malashri Lal / Sukrita Paul Kumar
Publisher: Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 370
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8179860167
Description
The discipline of 'Women's Studies' has yet to establish firm roots in Indian Academia. Drawing upon the expertise of major disciplines such as history, political science, sociology, psychology and literature, this volume focuses purposefully on aspects of female experience that conventional learning has ignored.
What causes an apparent mismatch between a recognized need to systematize an approach to social development and the actualisation of that need in pedagogical practice? In the context of Indian universities in particular, such queries are crucial. To advocate its strengths, Women’s Studies needs the mechanism of institutionalization. Materials production is a necessary, effective enterprise.
The present anthology of essays is designed as a teaching and library resource for Women’s Studies. Such damaging silence is now broken. That the women’s movement and women’s studies have a shared trajectory is established through their syncratic relationship set into interdisciplinary frames.
Research areas are clearly indicated; the fruits of individual empirical investigation are generously shared. Be it an interview on empowerment policy or stereotypes in cinema, or a glance at the results of militancy, or a return to the pages of history, the issue of denied status to women surfaces over and over again. Yet the authors, by the fineness of their argument, uncover the past in order to move towards amore equitable future.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
INTERFACE
Empowering Women
Beyond Syndromes of Devi or Dasi
On the Question of Woman in Films
WOMEN’S STUDIES DISCOURSE
Anxious Encounters
Women’s Movement and Women’s Studies in India:
A Historical Perspective
New Directions for Women’s Studies
A Blueprint for Research, Curriculum and Action
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Indigenizing Women’s Studies:
Focus on Indian Classical Texts
Mahabharata Through the Eyes of Women
Re-membering Women: Partition, Gender and Reorientations
Images of Women from Some Bangla Novels in Translation
(Re) Locating Woman Across Genres, Cultures and Time
NARRATION AND REPRESENTATION
Re-reading History: Unveiling Women
Kuntala Kumari and the Early Feminist Rhetoric in Orissa
Writing Women’s Lives: Oral Histories from the Coorg / Kodava Community
POLITICS AND IDENTITY
Indian Nationalism: Feminism, Mass Movement and Gandhian Ideology
Women in Indian Politics: Participation and Representation
Political Roles of Women in Kashmir
CURRICULUM DESIGN
Engendering and Developing Curriculum:
A Tightrope Walk
Teaching Women and Work:
Relevance of Feminist Theories
Feminist Theory in Pedagogy
ONE THE FIELD
Distance Education for Asian Women
Career Concerns of Indian Women An Approach through Psychology
Gender Differentials in HIV / AIDS Affected Scenario
Notes on Contributors