Women's Studies in the University

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidyut Bhagwat
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
University System ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper charts the institutional history of the Centre for Women's Studies in Poona, which was established in 1987 by the University Grants Commission. It does so both from the macro perspective of the impact of changes in the policies of the state since the time of its establishment and from the perspective of the micro-politics of everyday life within the university system. The paper provides important glimpses of how a particular centre has been able to grow and survive in spite of severe problems and an uncertain future.

Scripting Women’s Studies: Neera Desai on Feminism, Feminist Movements and Struggles

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-306
Author(s):  
Veena Poonacha
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Western India ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Feminist Movements

Neera Desai’s pioneering effort to introduce women’s studies into the university system was born out of her commitment to women’s equality. She visualized women’s studies as a movement within the academia to challenge the theoretical rationale for oppressive socio-economic and political institutions and structures. Seeking to excavate the intellectual and ideological moorings of this remarkable woman, this paper reviews her last major work, titled, Feminism as Experience: Thoughts and Narratives (2006). The exploration reveals not only her academic interest in the study of movements, but also her intimate connect with the groundswells of feminist politics in India for over six decades. Against this rich and varied history of twentieth century Indian women’s movement in Western India, Neera Desai, presents the oral histories of women, who were in the forefront of the struggle. This paper, then examines her earlier work, entitled The Social Construction of Feminist Consciousness: A Study of Ideology and Self Awareness among Women Leader (1992) to uncover the changing frames of her research.

The First Women’s Studies Research Centre: A History of Women’s Studies and Its Progenitors

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-233
Author(s):  
Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The beginning of Women’s Studies has a special history in India. It owes its origin not only to some stalwarts but also to the historical times in which its birth took place. Its location in the SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai was at the initiative of Dr Neera Desai, a Professor of Sociology at that university. Her own work on women’s issues in her Master’s thesis and her involvement in the women’s movement gave her the background for envisaging that a women’s university should engage with analysis of women’s condition and not just teach women other academic disciplines. It was with this motive, that the Research Centre for Women’s Studies was set up in 1974, a year before the publication of the report Towards Equality of the Government of India. The university - originally begun at the initiative of the educationist Shri Dhondo Kheshav Karve received a handsome grant from the industrialist Shri Damodar Thackersey and got named after his mother Shrimathi Nathibai Damodar Thackersey hereafter SNDT Women’s University. The Centre with the involvement of able and farsighted administrators at this university spearheaded the development of this Centre, which became the torch bearer for raising women’s issues.

Constituting a Field

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rekha Pappu
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
University System ◽  
Indian Council ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The University ◽  
Official Recognition

The present paper examines the founding moment of women's studies in India, namely, the 1970s. It investigates the unique impulses that made women's studies possible, which predated the official recognition of women's studies as field of study within the university system. Institutions such as the Indian Council of Social Science Research as well as the women's movement were critical players in this complex process. The paper goes on to discuss a major lacuna in women's studies, namely, its pedagogical dimension. Indeed, the absence of information or discussion of feminist pedagogic strategies within higher education could be one of the chief hurdles currently impeding a critical assessment of the undoubtedly significant role that women's studies has played.

scholarly journals Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University: A Struggle for Space and Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Dipmala Dutta ◽  
Polly Vauquline
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies (WS) in India although started in the 1970s, it took a decade further to cross the threshold of Northeastern States. The  isolation  which the Northeast of India has always faced in the social, economic and political spheres was also reflected  in the case of establishment of the Women’s Studies Centres as the then Vice Chancellor Dr. Deba Prasad Barooah had to struggle against the University Grants Commission for establishing it in Gauhati University. Again, the narrative of WSRC, GU do not find mention in the book Narratives from Women's Studies Family: Recreating Knowledge where experiences of 17 centres from across the country are illustrated. This paper investigates all such structural difficulties, negligence and struggle faced by one of the first Women’s Studies Centre of Northeast India, established in Gauhati University (GU), since its conceptualisation to inception in 1989 till the present. It attempts in revealing the experiences of the Directors, yielding the efforts behind the setting up of the centre, the role played by different individuals both internal and external of the University towards the establishment of the Centre, the catalysts that prevented the premature decay of the Centre and most importantly the struggle for space, identity and recognition the constraints faced to obtain them. To achieve these goals oral history method was applied to explore the experiences of the previous directors and the author (2nd author) herself. The narratives illustrate the history of struggles, challenges and the subsequent development over a span of more than twenty five years. The paper documents the support the University provided despite being a patriarchal institution for fostering of the WSRC, which in gradual years took steps to produce the Department of Women’s Studies. It will also look into the progressive role Women’s Studies played not only in the varsity internally but also at the external front through research and advocacy by inducing new panoramic view towards and discussion of women’s issues in a multidimensional framework.

Interdisciplinarity in Religious and Women's Studies

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 391-401
Author(s):  
Darlene M. Juschka
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines how interdisciplinarity has been adopted by, and deployed in, the production of knowledge in the university as institution. I begin by outlining three subcategories of interdisciplinarity that determine its semantic boundaries, and then shift to examine interdisciplinary work in Women's and Religious Studies. Thereafter I speak to the impact interdisciplinarity has had on knowledge and knowledge production in the university.

Chasing Angels: The Sweet Wine Angelica

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
hank shaw
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mission Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Sweet Wine ◽  
Made In

Portugal has port, Spain has sherry, Sicily has Marsala –– and California has angelica. Angelica is California's original wine: The intensely sweet, fortified dessert cordial has been made in the state for more than two centuries –– primarily made from Mission grapes, first brought to California by the Spanish friars. Angelica was once drunk in vast quantities, but now fewer than a dozen vintners make angelica today. These holdouts from an earlier age are each following a personal quest for the real. For unlike port and sherry, which have strict rules about their production, angelica never gelled into something so distinct that connoisseurs can say, ““This is angelica. This is not.”” This piece looks at the history of the drink, its foggy origins in the Mission period and on through angelica's heyday and down to its degeneration into a staple of the back-alley wino set. Several current vintners are profiled, and they suggest an uncertain future for this cordial.

Integrating Women's Studies in a Political Science Curriculum

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Leta A. Moniz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Impact

Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.

The Hogarth Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Alice Staveley
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
The State ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hogarth Press ◽  
Creative Production ◽  
State Of The Field ◽  
Feminist Materialism

‘Yet I’m the only woman in England free to write what I like. The others must be thinking of series’ & editors.’ Woolf’s 1925 homage to the impact of the Hogarth Press on her career is well known, signifying a new sense of herself as a woman writer in command of the means of creative production. Less well known is how pervasive were her private and public negotiations with the narratological implications of the feminist materialism she cultivated as a printer and publisher. This article reviews the state of the field, re-reads her early short fiction in the context of her typesetting experiments, which resonate with the conflicted history of women in the printing trades, and argues for a revisionist understanding of Woolf’s feminist modernism as isomorphic with the Hogarth Press.

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