Sociology of gender; Social construction of gender: socialisation, stereotypes and inequalities;
Perspectives on gender: liberal, Marxist, socialist, radical, Black, Third World; Gender and social
movements: from global to local; Gender in the economy, culture and polity: labour, law, family,
health, media, representation and reservation; Discourse on gender and development in India.
Texts/References:
1. A. Hochschild, The Second Shift, Avon Books, 2003.
2. B. Agarwal, Field of One�s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, Cambridge University
Press, 2003.
3. J, Lorber (ed.), The Social Construction of Gender, Sage Publication, 1991.
4. N. Kabeer, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Verso, 2003.
5. I. Agnihotri and V. Mazumdar, �Changing Terms of Political Discourse: Women's Movement in
India, 1970s-1990s�, in Economic and Political Weekly, 30 (29), 1995, pp. 1869-1878.
6. K. Chanana, �Accessing Higher Education: The Dilemma of Schooling Women, Minorities,
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Contemporary India�, in Higher Education, 26(1),
1993, pp. 69-92.
7. N. Menon, `Elusive �Woman�: Feminism and Women�s Reservation Bill�, in Economic and Political
Weekly, 35(43/44), 2000, pp. 3835-3841.
8. N. Yuval-Davis. �Women, Citizenship and Difference�, in Feminist Review, (57), 1997, pp. 4-27
