Department of Women’s Studies

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The learners will demonstrate a mastery of the subject by detailed engagement with evolution, development, and current practices in the field of Women's Studies and learn how to effectively conduct research in the field. The guest teachers on the teaching panel have international publications and visits to their credit. Some of them are engaged in collaborative work with the university and in projects in universities abroad. The Department looks forward to producing a regular output of brilliant students and researchers.

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    Double Vulnerability: Understanding Disability through Everyday Experiences of Women with Disabilities - a Brief Treatise
    (University of North Bengal, 2024-12) Mahaldar, Santosh
    The structure of Indian society is complex and heterogeneous, and it is pluralistic by nature due to its cultural and religious diversity. This aspect of pluralism has a massive impact on India's social order. In this social structure of diversity, though women are fighting for their basic rights, disabled women are more vulnerable to people’s notions of othering, which have muffled their voices. In Indian society, the position of a disabled woman is always inferior to that of a disabled man in comparison. Regarding women with disabilities, Fine and Asch write, “Disabled women are not only more likely to internalize society’s rejection, but they are more likely than disabled men to identify themselves as ‘disabled’ The disabled male possesses a relatively positive self-image and is more likely to identify as ‘male’ rather than as ‘disabled.’ (Fine and Asch,1981, p. 34). The idea of social acceptability dominates the minds of disabled women. In Indian society, women with disabilities have been subjugated through the dialogue and discourse of ‘deviant’ women because they do not fit into the society-made norms and cultures that determine and guide human behavior. This article delves into the theme of women with disabilities and their everyday lives. Following the lived experiences of disabled women, this essay supports and advocates their standpoints. What are some ways that women with disabilities face unique challenges? Is it possible to rethink the binary between disabled men and women? What could be the best way to address such burning issues? Based on the above questions, the researcher embarks on exploring the truth of the situations and positions of disabled women in society.
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    Subjugation and Emancipation : Women Characters in the Select Works of Girish Karnad
    (University of North Bengal, 2022-12) Mahaldar, Santosh
    A feminist perspective explores and analyzes among its other themes, the theme of gender inequality. It talks about the discourses of patriarchy and sexism that have kept women oppressed and marginalized economically, politically, socially and psychologically. Lois Tyson asserts: “Feminist criticism examines how literature (and other cultural productions) reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social and psychological oppression of women.” (Tyson, 2019, p. 79) Disparity against women based on gender distinction has been the core preoccupation of feminism. The role of women in our society has been confined within the boundaries of daughter, wife, and mother, which are suggestive of the restrictions that almost all women face in their homes. This paper draws on gender discourses to discuss the theme of subjugation of women in some select plays of Girish Karnad. The paper discusses four plays of Karnad to explore the issue ; Naga-Mandala, The Fire and the Rain , Hayavadana and Yajati . Discussion on women’s subjugation requires a proper theoretical and philosophical perspective. The essay refers to some deliberations and convictions of feminist critics like John Stuart Mill, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet, and Michel Foucault. Girish Karnad was well aware that the sexist oppression of women is a feature of patriarchal dominance. We know the adage, “power sets the agenda for patriarchy.” The research aims to pinpoint how Karnad seeks for means of atonement in the select plays.