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GENDER SENSITIZATION [1]

Paper Code: 
SSOC 601
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes(COs):

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO1: Analyze social construction of sex and gender
CO2: Develop critical thinking skills to Analyze interrelations between Gender, Family, Community and State
CO3: Summarize various gender related laws that have an immediate bearing on gender relations.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

18.00
  • Sex, Gender and Sexuality: Introduction to debates on the social construction of sex and gender
  • Cultural construction of masculinity and femininity

 

18.00
  • Gender, Family, Community and the State
18.00
  • Gender Rights and the Law:  Right to property, Personal laws

 

18.00
  • Violence against women: Sexual harassment, Rape, Domestic Violence
18.00
  • Understanding Intersections of Gender, Caste, Class, Region, Religion and Disability

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Geetha, V. 2002. Gender. Calcutta: Stree
  • Menon,Nivedita.  2012. Seeing like a Feminist.   New  Delhi: Zubaan/Penguin Books
  • Bhasin, Kamala. Patriarchy. New Delhi: Kali for Women
References: 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • Murty, Laxmi and Rajshri Dasgupta. 2012. 'Our Pictures, Our Words

 

  • A Visual Journey Through The Women's Movement'. New Delhi:Zubaan

 

  • Shah, Chayanika et al. 2005. Marriage, Family and Community: A Feminist

            Dialogue. Economic and Political Weekly February 19: 709‐722

 

 

e-Resources

 

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24 [3]

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[1] https://www.sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/gender-sensitization
[2] http://ncw.nic.in/frmLLawsRelatedtoWomen.aspx
[3] https://www.sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-session/2023-24