Pre-Requisite(s): None
Syllabus:
Literary and theoretical texts with gender as the central category of analysis- Role of gender in individual, societal and collective lives-Patriarchy; Gender Identity; Performativity; History of Anglo-American Feminism; Key Debates in Feminist Theory; Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler; Sexual Division of Labour; Feminist Theory and Literature; Works of Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin; Gender, Class, and Race; Masculinity Studies; R. W. Connell’s Masculinities; Hegemony, Subordination, Complicity, Marginalization, Historical Dynamics, Violence and Crisis Tendencies; Masculinity and Literature; Works of George Orwell, Katherine Mansfield, and John Osborne; Intersectionality; Gender and Body Studies; Identity, Nation, Health, and Age among others; Socio-cultural constructions of gender.