IV th Semester. M. A. (Women s Studies) Eligibility: Graduation Subject Title. Project Work

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1 IV th Semester Duration: 2 years M. A. (Women s Studies) Level: Post Graduation Degree Eligibility: Graduation Paper- I Project Work Introduction to Field Work and Extension Drawing up a Proposal Basic Methods: Observation, Questionnaire and Interview (Gender in the Field) Report Writing Developing Campaigns: A Special Focus on Legal, Media, Anti Caste Campaigns Field Work Essential Readings:- Ahuja R, Research Methodology, Clough, P and C, Nutbrown, Studies Guide to Methodology, London: Sage, Denzin, N and Lincoln. S (eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Macmillan, Mumbai, Field Work Manual, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences (2010)

2 Sarandakos Sotirios, A Tool Kit for Quantitative Data Analysis, Palgrave, Hampshire, Shulamit Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research, Oxford University Press, New York, Paper- II Women, Management and Entrepreneurship Gender issues in Management Women and social roles Characteristics of organization and the expectations Challenges of delivering the goods Women s experience at work place Gender stereotypes affecting the perception of women and men at work Biological determinism and management of role of women Need for Management Education for Women Development of gender sensitive management skills for women, Women in leadership and management position and experiences in administration Governance Executive position Politics Entrepreneurship

3 Other managerial position Gender empowerment measures-(gem) Glass ceiling Tokenism Need for capacity building for women managers. Gender impact of power and relationships at work Sexual harassment Health issues and stress management Relationship between women s health and environment Role Model case studies of Women entrepreneurs Recommended Reading:- Parikh Indira J and Kollan Bharati, Women Managers from Myth to Reality, Iima Working Papers , Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad Pawan S. Budhwar, Debi S. Saini and Jyotsana Bhatnagar., Women in Management in the New Economic Environment: The Case of India ASIA Pacific Business Review, 11.2 (2005) : Guendouzi, Jackei. The Guilt Thing: Balancing Domestic and Professional Roles Journal of Marriage and The Family 68: 44 (2006): The Glass Ceiling: Smashed or Still Holding Strong? Human Resource Management International Digest, 14.3 (2006): Boserup, Ester Women s Role in Economic Development. St. Martin s, 1970

4 Tinker, Irene (Ed) Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development, Oxford University Press, Paper- III Women, Science and Technology A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16 th and 17 th Century. Introduction and course overview; Cultural views of technology; Emergence of women and technology as an area of study. The question of power - the politics of technological artefacts, issues of gender, race, class and place. Women s Identity: Sciences and New Technology Domestic Technologies and Time Use Politics. Technologies Motherhood and Family Dynamics Girls, women and Science and Technology Education Women in the IT industries Contribution of Women to Science and Technology New Technologies of Opportunity (Social, cultural and professional) Recovering lost traditions (craft), discovering pockets of potential Technologies of Pleasure: Women, Girls and Technologies Leisure New Technologies and Feminist Activism Women and Environment

5 Women s Environment Movement in India Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development United Nations Environment Program Women, Science and Environment Ecological and Feminism Essential Readings:- Ahooja-Patel, Krishna, Women and Development, Ashish Publication House, New Delhi, A Wolf: F Dammemarm, A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16 th and 17 th Century. Gill Kirkup, Laurie Smith Keller, Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender Mariya Benjamin, A Question of Indentify: Women, Science and Literature Rutgers University Press, 1999 Shiva, Vandana and Moser, Ingunn (eds), Bio Politics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology, Zed Books LTD, London, Shiva Vandana, Globalization s New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, Shiva, Vandana, Staying Alive, Kali for Women, New Delhi, Swarup, Hemlata and Rajput, Pam. Gender Dimensions of Environmental and Development Debate: The Indian Experience, in Stuart S. Nagel, (ed.,) India s Development and Public Policy, Ashgate, Burlington, Venkateshwara, Sandhya, Environment, Development and the Gender Gap, Sage Publications, New Delhi, Further Reading:-

6 Braidotti, Rosi, Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theorotical Synthesis, Zed Books, London, Dankelman, Irene and Davidson, Joan, Women and Environment in the World: Alliance for the future, Earth scan, London, Rodda, Annabel, Women and the Environment, Zed Books, London, Sontheimer, Sally Ann, Women and the Environment: A reader, Eaethscan, London, United Nations Environment Programme, One Planet, Many People, United Nation Environment Programme, Planet in Peril, Wajcman, Judy. (2004).Techno Feminism. Cambridge, MA: Polity. Kafai, Yasmin et al. (2008) Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat. Cambridge: MIT Press. Wajcman Intro & Chpt. 1 + Pinch & Bijker "Social Construction of Technology" + Berg & Lie "Feminism and Constructivism" [WebCT] Minahan & Cox "Stitch'n'Bitch Cyberfeminism" [WebCT] + Kearney"Productive Spaces" [WebCT] + Plant "The Future Looms" [WebCT] Additional readings are available via Web Transformative Potential" [WebCT] Film screening: Orgad Screening :Sita Sings the Blues(2008)Week 12 Nov Paper- IV Women, Labour and Economy Concept of Work, Domestic Work and

7 Redefinition in Official State Documents Women in Agriculture and Industry Understanding Women in the unorganized Sector New Economic Policy and Work Global Reconstructing of Capital : Feminist Perspectives Globalization and Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third Word. Essential Readings:- Agrawal Bina Women, Poverty and Agricultural Growth in India. New Delhi: JPS Agrwal Bina Who Sows? Who reaps? Women and Land Rights in India, New Delhi: JPS Sen, Gita and Grown. C Development, Crises and Alternative/Visions. New York : Monthly Sangari, K and Chakravarti, U From Myths to Markets. New Delhi : Manohar Desai, V and R. B. Ptter Companion to Development Studies, London : Routledge Cair, M. etal (eds.) Speaking out : Women s Economic Empowerment in South Asia. New Delhi : Vistaar.