000			16373nam a22001577a 4500
999			_c2602 _d2602
003			OSt
008			170220b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9789386405043
082			_a370.095 4 JAI
100			_aJain,Shivani
245			_aGender,School & Society
260			_aMeerut _bR Lall Book Depot
520			_aContents:- Unit-1: Gender Issues: Key Concepts 1. Gender, Sex, Sexuality • Distinction between Sex and Gender • Etymological Sense of Gender • Gender Discourse in Indian Context • Concepts of Sex and Gender • Biological Determinism • Gender, Sexuality and Sexism • Concept of Sexuality • Religion • Family • Direction of Control over Sexuality 2. Patriarchy, Masculinity and Feminism • Patriarchy • Different Aspects of Patriarchy • 1. Concept of Private Property and Control over Women’s Reproduction • 2. Control over Labour Force • 3. Paternalism • 4. Women’s Cooperation in Maintaining Patriarchal System • 5. Caste System and Patriarchy • 6. Benevolent Paternalism • Masculinity • Feminism • Concept of Feminism • Feminist theories • Origin and Growth of Feminist Thought • Emergence of Feminist Awareness • Typology of Feminism • Liberal Feminism • Basic Assumptions • Evaluation • Radical Feminism • Basic Assumptions • Chief Points of Radical Feminism • 1. Personal is Political • 2. Creation of Women’s Space • Evaluation • Conclusion • Socialist/ Marxist Feminism • Assumptions • 1. Relationship between Capitalist Patriarchy, Domestic Labour and Reproduction • 2. It is a Question of not only Exploitation but also Subordination • 3. Separatism and Isolation • 4. Problems Pertaining to Emerging Employment • Evaluation • Postmodernist Feminism • 1. Post Feminism • 2. Black Feminism • 3. Eco-feminism • 4. Power Feminism • Western Feminism Vs. Indian Feminism • Chronological Overview 3. Gender Bias • Birth • Childhood to Adulthood and its Education • Adulthood and Onwards • Discrimination towards Men • Consequences • Different Forms of Violence • Agencies Perpetuating Violence • Family • Child Marriage or Early Marriage • Female Infanticide and Female Foeticide • Female Infanticide • Causes of Female Infanticide • Female Infanticide: Sex Ratio and Prevalence • Female Foeticide • Pre-natal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act, 1988 • Misuse of Sex Determination Technology • Sexual Harassment at Workplace • Definitions of Sexual Harassment at Workplace • Two Types of Sexual Harassment • Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention) Act, 2000 • Violence on Women: Dowry and Bride Burning • Legislations Regarding Dowry • Dowry Prohibition Act, 1984 • New Legislations • Rape • Laws Regarding Rape • Punishment • Important Laws Pertaining to Women in India 4. Gender Stereotyping and Empowerment • Gender Stereotyping • Definitions of Stereotype • Common Gender Stereotypes • Gender Stratification • Gender (Women) Empowerment • Woman Empowerment • Definition of Women Empowerment • Education and Women Empowerment • Criteria of Women Empowerment • Giving Girls and Women an Opportunity in Skill Training 5. Equity and Equality in Education • Gender Equity and Equality • Gender and Class • Gender and Caste, Religion and Ethnicity • Gender and Disability • Gender and Religion • Gender Equity and Equality in Education • Education and Women • Meaning of Education for Women • Objectives of Women’s Education • Life Skills and Women • Definition of Life Skills • Different Aspects of Life Skills • Need for and Importance of Life Skills • Women and Sustainable Development • Special Role of Women as Protector of Environment • Waste Management and Woman Worker 6. Equity and Equality in Education: Present Status in India and Prospects • Gender Realities and Challenges of Education • Drop-out Rates in School Education • Table: Drop-out Rates in School Education • A: All Categories of Students • Issues Concerning Enrolment of Girls and Their Retention • Table: Number of Girls per Hundred Boys Enrolled by Stages of Education • Education as a Means of Socialisation and Social Control • List of States on the Basis of Sex Ratio • Child Sex Ratio • Implications for Girls as Students • Table: Examination Results • A: Class X 2010 • B: Class XII 2010 • C: Class XII- Selected Streams- 2010 • Heterogeneous Gender Realities and Domains and Challenges in Education • Table: Level-wise Enrolment A: All Categories of Students • Table: Level-wise Enrolment A: Scheduled Caste Students • Table: Level-wise Enrolment B: Scheduled Caste Students • What type of School are children going to? Change over time? Enrolment in Private Schools • Concerns Specific to Education 7. Polyandrous, Matrilineal and Matriarchal Societies in India • Types of Polyandry • Fraternal Polyandry • Partible Polyandry • Occurrences of Polyandry • Asia • Hinduism • Judaism • Christianity • Islam • Matrilineal Societies in India • Matrilineal Surname • Care of children • Matrilineality in Specific Ethnic Groups • Matriarchal Societies in India • Definitions, Connotations, and Etymology • Asia • India Unit- II: Gender Studies: Paradigm Shift 8. Paradigm Shift from Women’s Studies to Gender Studies • Meaning of Paradigm Shift • Paradigm Shift from Women’s Studies to Gender Studies • Gender Studies and Gender Main Streaming 9. Historical Backdrop: Women’s Social Reform Movements • Concept of Social Reform Movement • Women’s Movements in India • (A) Pre-independence Women’s Movements in India: First Wave of Women’s Movements • Social Reform Movement and Women • Raja Ram Mohan Roy • Development of Women’s Education • Ishwar Chadra Vidyasagar • Justice Mahadev Gobind Ranade • Mahrishi Karve • Swami Dayananda • Swami Vivekananda • 1. The Gujarat Vernacular Society • 2. The Deccan Education Society • 3. Ramakrishna Mission • 4. Arya Samaj • 5. Hingne Women’s Education Institution • 6. SNDT Women University • 7. Seva Sadan • 8. Indian National Social Conference • 9. All India Women’s Conference • 10. Sharda Sadan • (B) Women in Indian national Movement • (C) Post-independence Women’s Movements in India: The Second Wave • (D) Contemporary Women’s Movements in India: Third Wave of Women’s Movement • Important Committees and Commissions for Women • International Conventions 10. Theories on Gender and Education and Their Application in Indian Context • Four Feminist Approaches to Educational Intervention • 1. Socialisation Theory • 2. Gender-difference Theory • Leftist Challenge to Liberal Feminists • 3. Structural Theory • 4. Deconstructive Theory • Theories on Gender and Education: Comparative Analysis • Conclusion 11. Power Control in Patriarchal, Patrilineal, Matriarchal and Matrilineal Societies • Patriarchal Societies • Etymology and Usage • History and Origin of Modern Patriarchy • Feminist Theory • Patriarchal System • Characteristics of a Patriarchal System • Examples of Patriarchal System: Military • Patrilineality • Agnatic Succession • Assessing Effect of Patriarchal, Patrilineal, Matriarchy and Matrilineal Societies on Children’s Education Unit- III: Gender, Power and Education 12. Gender Identities and Socialisation Practices • Socialisation Processes: Meaning and Definition • Characteristics of Socialization • Process of Socialization • Agencies Leading to Socialization of a Child • Factors Resisting Socialization of a Child • Role of Teacher in the Process of Socialization 13. Schooling of Girls: Inequalities and Resistances • Schooling of Girls • Education and Violence against Women • Education and Women’s Empowerment • Schooling of Girls in India • Ghosha • Lopamudra • Maitreyi • Gargi • British India • Independent India • Current Policies • Inequalities and Resistance Issues of Access, Retention and Exclusion 14. Collection of Folklores Reflecting Socialisation Processes • Pattern of Folktale Practices among School Children and Socialisation Process • Culture Acquisition through Folk tales 15. Changing Perspectives with Legal Provisions • The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 • Introduction • Main features of the act • Overriding effect of the act • Scheme of the act • Intestate succession • Devolution of interest in Mitakshara Coparcenary Property • (a) Section 6 of the act as it stood before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 • What is Coparcenary • Coparcenary Property • Illustrations • (b) Section 6 of the Act as it Stood before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 • Devolution of interest in the property of Tarwad, Tavazhi, Kutumba, Kavaru ot Illom • Succession of Property of a male Hindu • Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property • Effect of Section 14 • Female Benamidar of the property • Basic difference between sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of Section 14 of Hindu Succession Act • Object of section 14(2) • Rules of Succession of the property of females • Succession under the Muslim Law • General Principles of Inheritance • 1. No joint family property • 2. Birth-right not recognized • 3. Estate Vests at once in the Heirs • 4. Child in the womb • 5. Principle of Primogeniture • 6. Principle of Representation • 7. Principle of Exclusion • (a) Homicide • Sunni Law of Inheritance • Classes of Heirs • Shia Law of Inheritance • No “Distant Kindred” • Classification of Heirs • Sunni (Hanafi) and Shia Law of Inheritance Distinguished • 1. Rule of Primogeniture • 2. Homicide • 3. Illegitimate child • 4. Movable and immovable property • 5. Doctrine of representation • 6. Classification of Heirs • 7. Nearer Degree Excluding the Remoter • 8. Doctrine of Aul • 9. Doctrine of Rudd (Return) • 10. Devolution of Residue • 11. Under Shia Law the Mother’s Right to get 1/3 not curtailed • Hindu and Muslim Law of inheritance Compared Unit- IV: Gender Issues in Curriculum 16. Social Construction of Masculinity and Femininity • Purpose of Education: Narrowing or expanding human capacities • Critical definitions of gender, masculinity, equality and empowerment • Gender • Masculinity • Equality • Empowerment • Substantive Citizenship and linking and collective gender-based transformation • Gender, education and construction of knowledge • Why to deal with gender issues in education • How gender-based inquiry can enhance education • Diversity and Intersectionality • How education can address gender inequalities • Paradox of education and internally contradictory construction of knowledge • Constructing alternative gender-based framework of knowledge and making visible the invisible • Need for alternative gender-based framework of knowledge 17. Patriarchies in Interaction with Other Social Structures and Identities • Social Structures and Identities • Diverse learning theories and gender identity formulation • Gender roles • Formulation of gender roles identity and self-concept in different cultures: Gender Socialisation • Gender roles • Some additional instances and episodic narrations • Patriarchies in interaction with social structures and identities • Speaking pictures 18. Reproducing Gender in School Curriculum, Textbooks and Classroom Processes • Reproducing gender in school curriculum and textbooks • (a) History • (b) Economics • (c) Sociology • (d) Political Science • (e) Geography • (f) Sciences • (g) Mathematics • (h) Language • Reproducing gender in classroom processes and student-teacher interactions • Pedagogy • Indications for exercise • Teacher as agent of change: teacher training • Experiment on gender issue by rural school female teacher 19. Overcoming Gender Stereotypes • Overcoming Gender Stereotypes 20. Working towards Gender Equality in the Classroom: Need and Strategies • Locating the teacher • Problem with gender input and teacher training • The Way Forward • Using Creative Methodologies 21. Empowerment of Women: Strategies and Issues • Co-education • Merits of Co-education • Demerits of Co-education • Inference • Relationship within school • National Educational Policies and Gender Issues • Nationalisation of Women’s Education • Towards Equality Report, 1975 • National Educational Policy, 1986 • Provisions for Women Empowerment in National Educational Policy, 1986 • National Curriculum Framework, 2000 • Government Policies and Existing Approaches to Gender, Equality and Empowerment • Appendix ‘A’: Definitions and Vocabulary • Other Definitions • Appendix ‘B’: Important Tables • Table: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)A: All Categories of students • Table: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)A: All Categories of students • Table: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)B: Scheduled Caste Students • Table: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)C: Scheduled Tribes Students • Table: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)C: Scheduled Tribes Students • Table: Gender Parity Index (GPI)A: All Categories of Students • Table: Gender Parity Index (GPI)B: Scheduled Caste Students • Table: Gender Parity Index (GPI)C: Scheduled Tribes Students • Table: Public Expenditure on Education and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) • Table : Literacy Rates (7+ Age Groups) (in Percentage) • Table: Adult Literacy Rates (15+ Age Group) (in Percentage) • Table: Number of Institutions by Type: 2013-14 (P) • Table: Number and Pupil-teacher Ratio by Type of Institution • Table: Gender Parity Index • Table: Level-wise Drop-Out Ratio in school education (in % age) • Table: Examination Result • Table: Literacy Rates (% age) • Table: Number of Recognised Educational Institutes • Table: Number of Girls Per Hundred Boys Enrolled by Stage of Education • Table: Number of Female Teacher Per Hundred Male Teachers • Table: Public Expenditure on Education and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) • Bibliography • Reading List • Web References • Objective Questions • Tick the right options • Tick True or False
300			_a278p
942			_2ddc _cGB