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M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUS 45Unit-IColonial India - Debates on the position of Women, Social Reform Movements.National Movement : The Women’s Question in Major Streams of the National Movement, Participation ofWomen, Debate Over Vote.Unit-IIThe Modern Indian state and the Women’s Question - Ideology, Institutional and Legal Provisions,Feminist Critique of the Indian state.Development Planning, Neo-liberal Policies and Globalisation - Implications for Women.Unit-IIIWomen’s Movement in Contemporary India-ideology, Relationship with Political Parties and the Questionof Autonomy.Feminist Agenda in and Perspectives on other movements - environment, left, caste and religion basedmovements.Issues in Women’s Movement.Violence.Work.Health.Law.Media and Representation of Women.Reservation.Unit-IVReading List :1. Kumkum Sangari and Vaid (eds.), Recasting Women, Kali, New Delhi, 1989.2. Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy, OUP, New Delhi, 1983.3. Uma Chakravarty, “Beyond the Alterkaian Paradigm” in A. Suryakumari (ed.), Women’s Studies inEmerging Discipline, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 2004.4. Madhu Kishwar, “Gandhi on Women”, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 October, 1985.5. Sujata Patel, “Construction and Reconstruction of Women in Gandhi”, Economic and PoliticalWeekly.6. Radha Kumar, “A History of Doing”, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993.7. Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah, Issues at Stake, Theory and Practice in the ContemporaryWomen’s Movement in India, Kali, New Delhi, 1992.8. V. Geetha, Gender, Stree Publications, 2004.9. Nivedita Menon, Gender and Politics in India, OUP, New Delhi, 1999.10. Nivedita Menon, Recovering Subversion : Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, Permanent Black, NewDelhi, 2004.11. Anupama Rao (ed.), Gender and Caste, Stree Publications, 2005.12. Bina Agarwal, A Field One’s Own : Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, Cambridge, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1994.13. Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive : Women, Ecology and Survival in India, Kali, New Delhi, 1988.14. Seminar Issue, September 1997, Special Issue on ‘Women’s Reservation Bill’.15. Flavia Agnes, “Redefining the Agenda of the Women’s Movement within a Secular Framework” inUrvashi Butalia and Tanikh Sarkar (eds.), Women and the Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi,1995.