About the Book
Women’s Studies, by its very philosophy, is located beyond the individual. Its aim is to transform society for ensuring dignity to women through various institutional tools such as teaching, research, policy advice and extension programmes.
This book is about the journey of past twenty-five years of UGC’s initiated Women’s Studies, the way it got shaped at the University of Delhi. It is an attempt to highlight various women’s concerns touched upon by the scholars associated with the Women’s Studies and Development Centre. The themes covered in the book throw a light on the trajectory of this journey with an interdisciplinary inquiry of women’s realities. The book contributes to the understanding of gender at various backdrops, like, girl child, young urban women, women’s agency, negotiations with violence, representation of women in media and literature, the caste and class realities and the concerns that have emerged due to globalization.
Contents
Part I: The Beginning: Reflection on the Early Days’ Perspectives
1. A Blueprint for Research, Curriculum and Action in Women’s Studies / Susheela Kaushik
2. Women’s Studies in Indian Universities / Veena Poonacha
3. Girl Child in India / Vibha Chaturvedi and Nilima Srivastava
Part II: Expanding Horizon: Touching Multiple Concerns
4. Women, Literature and Culture in India / Malashri Lal
5. Women in India / Sanjukta Dasgupta
6. Ethnography of Gender Among North Indian Muslims / Zarina Bhatty
7. Anti-Imperialist Humanism: The Feminine in Rabindranath Tagore’s Theatre / Esha Niyogi De
8. On the Question of Women in Films / Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal
9. Interventions to Tackle Domestic Violence in India and the United Kingdom / Ann Stewart and Manjeet Bhatia
10. Anti-Sikh Riots of 1984 Revisited / Amrit Kaur Basra
Part III: Taking it Forward: Retrospection and New Areas
11. Gender Inequality / Manjeet Bhatia
12. Happily Unmarried: Interrogations of the Single Women in South Asia / Tanya Caulfield
13. Gender Imagery in American and Indian Advertising / Lucinda Joy Peach
14. Reframing Globalization and Internationalism / Mary E. John
15. Dalit Feminism and the Question of Violence / Krishna Menon
16. Can the Feminists qua Feminists be Allies of M.C / Shefali Moitra
17. Microfinance and Gender Equality / Madhu Vij
18. Private Space in Public Transport / Shelly Pandey
19. Feminist Perspectives on Honour Killings and Domestic Violence / Chantal Maillé
About the Author / Editor
Madhu Vij was Director, Women’s Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi from June 2012 to July 2013. She is Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Her research, professional and teaching interests include banking, international financial management, management of financial services and behavioural finance. She is actively involved in working on gender issues and has delivered special talks in this area.
Manjeet Bhatia is a senior faculty member at the Women’s Studies & Development Centre (WSDC) University of Delhi. She holds degrees in pure sciences, philosophy and political science. She has been working in the interdisciplinary area of women’s studies for more than two decades. She has convened and coordinated several UGC refresher courses in women’s studies and made presentations in several such courses. She has been a visiting scholar at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and at the University of Hull, UK.
Shelly Pandey is Senior Fellow at the Women’s Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi. Her research interests cover gender, space, globalization, ICT and work. She is the recipient of M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize 2012 awarded by Indian Sociological Society for her paper “Private Space in Public Transport: Locating Gender in Delhi Metro”, published in Economic and Political Weekly.
