Unit I
Western Feminist Discourse on Women in the Third World Chandra Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes…”
Feminist Thought in India
Jasbir Jain and Avadhesh Kumar Singh’s “Positioning the ‘Post’ in Post - Feminism...”
Unit II
Politics of the Body
Ketu H. Katrak’s “Cultural ‘Traditions’ Exiling the Female Body”
Unit III
Female Subjectivity: Women’s Experience and Identity
Radha Chakravarty’s “Subjectivity and the Woman Writer”
Unit IV
Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe (2001)
Unit V
Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017)
Suggested Reading:
Chakravarty, Radha. “Introduction : Subjectivity and the Woman Writer.” Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity. New Delhi: Routledge, 2007.
Das, Veena. “The Body as Metaphor: Socialization of Women in Punjabi Urban Families.” Manushi 28. (1985): 2-6.
---. “Violence, Gender and Subjectivity” in Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 37: 283-99, October 2008.
Jain, Jasbir and Avadhesh Kumar Singh. Indian Feminisms. Creative Books, 2001.
Katrak, Ketu, H. “Cultural “Traditions” Exiling the Female Body.” The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World. Rutgers Univ. Press, 2006. 156-208.
Mohanty, Chandra. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Feminist Review 30 (1988): 61-88.
Sarkar, Tanika and Urvashi Butalia. Ed. Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays. Kali for Women, 1995.
Links:
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[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2018-2019