Gender Studies
CSS Gender Studies Paper Syllabus
Total Marks: 100
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Total Marks: 100
Time Allowed: 3 hours
I. Introduction to Gender Studies
- 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
II. Social Construction of Gender
- Historicizing Constructionism
- Problematizing the category of “Sex”: Queer Theory
- Is “Sex” socially determined, too?
- Masculinities and Femininity
- Nature versus Culture: A Debate in Gender Development
III. Feminist Theories and Practice
- What is Feminism
- Liberal Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Marxist/Socialist Feminism
- Psychoanalytical Feminism
- Men’s Feminism
- Postmodern Feminism
IV. Feminist Movements
- Feminist Movements in the West. First Wave, 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
- 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
VI. Status of Women in Pakistan
- Status of Women’s health in Pakistan
- Status of Women in Education
- Women and Employment
- Women and Law
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
- Shermin Ubaid Chinoy
