Gender Studies

PAPER: GENDER STUDIES (100 MARKS)
I. Introduction to Gender Studies
 Introduction to Gender Studies
 Difference between Gender and Women Studies
 Multi-disciplinary nature of Gender Studies
 Autonomy vs. Integration Debate in Gender Studies, 1.4,
 Status of Gender Studies in Pakistan
II. Social Construction of Gender
 Historicizing Constructionism
 Problematizing the category of “Sex”: Queer Theory, 1.2B
 Is “Sex” socially determined, too?
 Masculinities and Femininity
 Nature versus Culture: A Debate in Gender Development, 2.5B
III. Feminist Theories and Practice
 What is Feminism
 Liberal Feminism
 Radical Feminism
 Marxist/Socialist Feminism, 3.4B
 Psychoanalytical Feminism
 Men’s Feminism
 Postmodern Feminism
IV. Feminist Movements
 Feminist Movements in the West. First Wave, Second Wave and Third Wave, 4.1B, 4.2C
Feminism. United Nation Conferences on Women, Feminist Movements in
Pakistan.
V. Gender and Development
 Colonial and Capitalistic Perspectives of Gender, 5.1B
 Gender Analysis of Development Theories; Modernization Theory, World System
Theory, Dependency Theory, Structural Functionalism.
 Gender Approaches to Development: Women in Development (WID), Women
and Development (WAD), Gender and Development (GAD); Gender Critique of
Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs).
 Globalization and Gender
VI. Status of Women in Pakistan
 Status of Women’s health in Pakistan
 Status of Women in Education
 Women and Employment
 Women and Law, 4.4B, 4.4C

VII. Gender and Governance
 Defining Governance
 Suffragist Movement
 Gender Issues in Women as Voters
 Gender Issues in Women as Candidates
 Gender Issues in Women as Representatives
 Impact of Political Quota in Pakistan
VIII. Gender Based Violence
 Defining Gender Based Violence
 Theories of Violence against Women
 Structural and Direct Forms of Violence
 Strategies to Eliminate Violence against Women, 8.4B, 8.4C
IX. Case Studies of:
 Mukhtaran Mai, 9.1B
 Mallala Yousaf Zai, 9.2B
 Shermin Ubaid Chinoy, 9.3B
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