Women's Studies in India - Contours of Change

Women's Studies in India - Contours of Change

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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