Erotic Mentoring: Women's Transformations in the University, and: Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-252
Author(s):  
Alison Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

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.

Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Fez, Morocco

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 313-317
Author(s):  
Fatima Sadiqi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
The University

Launching the first gender studies program in the University of Fez was a challenge. After much resistance, the organizers established the interdisciplinary dirasat al-ajnas (study of genres) as a form of intellectual resistance. In this chapter, Fatima Sadiqi shares the story of her success in gradually changing norms and establishing the first women’s studies research center at the University of Fez in Morocco.

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