Indian Feminisms: Concepts and Issues 

• Students across various disciplines from Literature, Sociology, Women's studies and Gender studies doing either their Bachelor's or Master's, and even PhD, will benefit from this course

This course aims to engage with the multiple constructions of ‘women’ through history especially with the intention to enhance the concepts pertaining to gender and sexualities in the Indian context

The questions that this course deals with are: How is the category, ‘woman,’ conceptualized in India? What are the specific impacts/consequences of gender and sexuality in India? What issues/frameworks become important in the articulations by Indian feminisms? The areas that this course explores are broadly: construction of the Indian womanhood; intersecting structures of gender, caste, class, religion, and sexuality; body and violence; evolution of ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ through history; contemporary ruminations

In the process, this course will analyse how the notions of patriarchy as constituted of gender binarism, has come to be challenged through the intersectional lenses of class, religion, sexuality and so on

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only)