Gender Studies

CSS SYLLABUS GENDER STUDIES – 100 MARKS

I. Introduction to Gender Studies
§ Difference between Gender and Women Studies
§ Multi-disciplinary nature of Gender Studies
§ Autonomy vs. Integration Debate in Gender Studies
§ Status of Gender Studies in Pakistan
§ Problematizing the category of “Sex”: Queer Theory
§ Is “Sex” socially determined, too?
§ Masculinities and Feminism
§ Nature versus Culture: A Debate in Gender Development
§ Liberal Feminism
§ Radical Feminism
§ Marxist/Socialist Feminism
§ Psychoanalytical Feminism
§ Men’s Feminism
§ Postmodern Feminism
§ 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
§ Status of Women in Education
§ Women and Employment
§ Women and Law

§ Introduction to Gender Studies

II. Social Construction of Gender

§ Historicizing Constructionism

III. Feminist Theories and Practice

§ What is Feminism

IV. Feminist Movements

§ Feminist Movements in the West, First W ave, Second Wave and Third Wave Feminism, United Nation Conferences on Women, Feminist Movements in Pakistan.

V. Gender and Development

§ Colonial and Capitalistic Perspectives of Gender

VI. Status of Women in Pakistan

§ Status of Women’s health in Pakistan

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

IX. Case Studies of:

§ Mukhtaran Mai

§ Mallala Yousaf Zai

§ Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy