Section 3 - Educating and Partnering for CEDAW

Week Main Text Major Themes/Issues Activity Notes
6-7 Jane Eyre,
Charlotte Bronte
*The novel as social
commentary
*Social expectations and roles
of women in Victorian England
*The context and the influences
of the publication “Vindication
of the Rights of Woman’’ and
the first wave of feminism
*Interventions and challenges
posed by women against such
expectations; political and
social interventions to social
discrimination
*The mid-Victorian Era; social
change; evangelical revival
and legal changes in women’s
rights
*Discrimination in education
(CEDAW art. 10)
*Equality before the law
(CEDAW art.15)
*The autonomous European
(English) woman and the
imagination of her Other
Independent library
work
Group reporters as
lead discussants,
to be followed by
class discussion
7-8 Wide Sargasso Sea,
Jean Rhys
*Europe and its Other
*Colonialism in the Caribbean:
relations and exploits
*Discriminatory laws and
practices on marriage and
family life (CEDAW art.16)
*Laws and practices regarding
economic and social benefits
(CEDAW art.13)
*Critique of western feminism
*Reclaiming silenced and
marginalized voices and
realities
*Alternative narrative voice(s)
*Intertextuality
Rewriting the master narrative
of western discourse
9 Second exam:
August 8
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