UNIT I         CONCEPTS

      Sex vs. Gender, masculinity, femininity, socialization, patriarchy, public/ private, essentialism, binaryism, power, hegemony, hierarchy, stereotype, gender roles, gender relation, deconstruction, resistance, sexual division of labour.

UNIT II       FEMINIST THEORY

      Liberal, Marxist, Socialist, Radical, Psychoanalytic, postmodernist, ecofeminist.

UNIT III      WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS: GLOBAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL

      Rise of Feminism in Europe and America. Women’s Movement in India.

UNIT IV     GENDER AND LANGUAGE

      Linguistic Forms and Gender. Gender and narratives.

UNIT V      GENDER AND REPRESENTATION

      Advertising and popular visual media. Gender and Representation in Alternative Media. Gender and social media.