B.Tech

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 255
• Course: B.Tech
• Semester: VIII
• Title: Gender and Society
• Stream:

• Preamble / Objectives (Optional): This course details the role of gender in society and its varied

  impact on individuals and groups. Drawing from sociological, feminist and queer studies

  emerging from India and abroad, this course will help understand gender is a social construct,

  which pervades functioning of all institutions, affecting life chances and achievements of its

  members. The ways in which gender is/can be challenged to build robust inclusive institutions

  and spaces will be discussed. Various movements addressal of gender issues, and reforms

  brought by them will be integral to the course.

  Course Content/ Syllabus

  Basic concepts and definitions: gender, gender socialisation, gender stereotypes, Perspectives

  on gender: Functionalists, Feminists and Queer perspectives; Gender and institutions: family

  and division of labour, education and STEM fields, economy and employment, space and urban

  planning, new media and youth, law, discrimination, and violence; Gender and social

  movements: Indian women’s movements, Indian queer movements, right to equal citizenship;

  Creating gender inclusive institutions through state policies in India: female supernumerary

  policy in admissions to IITs, NITs and others, national gender quota 2023, transgender persons

  (protection of rights) act 2019.

  Books (In case UG compulsory courses, please give it as “Text books” and “Reference books”. Otherwise

  give it as “References”.

  Text books:

  1. Caroline Criado Perez. Invisible women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for

  men, Vintage, 2020.

  2. Meg John and Jules Scheele. Gender: A graphic guide. Icon Books, 2019.

  References: (Format: Authors, Book Title in Italics font, Volume/Series, Edition Number, Publisher, Year.)

   

  1. Caroline Starkey and Emma Tomalin. (ed.) The Routledge handbook of religion, gender

  and society, Routledge, 2023.

  2. D’Lane R. Compton, Tey Medow, and Kirstein Schilt (eds.), Others, please specify:

  Queer methods in sociology, University of California Press, 2019.

  3. Hyun Kyuong Ro, Frank Fernandez, Elizabet J Ramon (eds.), Gender equity in STEM in

  higher education, Routledge, 2021.

  4. Kamla Bhasin. Understanding gender, Kali for Women, 2011.

  5. Madhavi Desai. (ed.) Gender and the Indian city: Revisioning design and planning,

  South Asia Press. 2023.

  6. Mengia Hong Tschalear. Muslim women’s quest for justice: Gender, law and activism in

  India, Cambridge studies in law and society, 2017.