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GENDER SENSITIZATION LAB

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Unit - 1: UNDERSTANDING GENDER

Introduction

  • Definition of Gender
  • Basic Gender Concepts and Terminology
  • Exploring Attitudes towards Gender
  • Construction of Gender
  • Socialization: Making Women, Making Men
  • Preparing for Womanhood
  • Growing up Male
  • First lessons in Caste

Unit – 2: GENDER ROLES AND RELATIONS

Gender Roles and Relations

  • Two or Many?
  • Struggles with Discrimination
  • Types of Gender Roles
  • Gender Roles and Relationships Matrix
  • Missing Women
  • Sex Selection and Its Consequences
  • Declining Sex Ratio
  • Demographic Consequences
  • Gender Spectrum: Beyond the Binary

Unit – 3: GENDER AND LABOUR

Gender and Labour

  • Division and Valuation of Labour
  • Housework: The Invisible Labor
  • "My Mother doesn’t Work." "Share the Load."
  • Work: Its Politics and Economics
  • Fact and Fiction. Unrecognized and Unaccounted work
  • Gender Development Issues
  • Gender, Governance and Sustainable Development
  • Gender and Human Rights
  • Gender and Mainstreaming

Unit – 4: GENDER - BASED VIOLENCE

Gender-based Violence

  • The Concept of Violence
  • Types of Gender-based Violence
  • Gender-based Violence from a Human Rights Perspective
  • Sexual Harassment: Say No!
  • Sexual Harassment, not Eve-teasing
  • Coping with Everyday Harassment
  • Further Reading: “Chupulu”
  • Domestic Violence: Speaking OutIs Home a Safe Place?
  • When Women Unite [Film]
  • Rebuilding Lives
  • Thinking about Sexual Violence Blaming the Victim
  • "I Fought for my Life….”

Unit – 5: GENDER AND CULTURE

Gender and Culture

  • Gender and Film
  • Gender and Electronic Media
  • Gender and Advertisement
  • Gender and Popular Literature
  • Gender Development Issues
  • Gender Issues
  • Gender Sensitive Language
  • Just Relationships: Being Together as Equals
  • Mary Kom and Onler
  • Love and Acid just do not Mix
  • Love Letters
  • Mothers and Fathers
  • Rosa Parks-The Brave Heart
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