Discipline

Gender and Development

Course Number
PS 640
Credit
6
Discipline Type
Sociology

Course Content(List of the topics/sub-topics to be covered in the lectures/practicals/assignments):
3. GENDER, DEVELOPMENT AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 4. Public Policy in Post-Independence India: Agriculture, Environment,
5. Urbanization and Social Development.
6. From women to gender: The development of the field. ( What is efficient, equitable, and equal?)
7. Contending perspectives, differing voices : Globalization of feminism and human rights? Who is to say what is right?
8.. Development and Social Change: Viewed with a Gender Lenses
9. Agriculture, Environment and Gender
10. Work and Gender Relations (Formal/Informal)
11. Work and Gender Relations (Globalization)
12. Population and Health Policy with a Gender Lenses
13. Health Sector Reform: HIV/AIDS and Gender
14. Health sector summaries and initial draft of chapter for World Bank.
15. GENDER, THE "DOING" OF DEVELOPMENT, AND THE "STATE"
16. Social Change: Politics, Social Movements, and the State

Reference

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