Exam Details

Subject Gender And Society
Paper
Exam / Course Masters In Anthropology (Maan)
Department School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date June, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

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IMANE-0041 MASTERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY (MAAN)

o Term-End Examination
No

June, 2016
o
MANE-004: GENDER AND SOCIETY Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. The word limit for each answer of the 20 marks questions is 500 ulOrds, for 10 marks questions is 250 and for 5 marks questions is 125 words. Attempt atleast two questions from each section.

SECTION

1. How are femininity and masculinity understood from the perspective of sexuality, religion and culture? Explain.

2. What are the main feminist theories of gender Discuss any two of them in detail.

3. Discuss gender roles in kinship in South Asia with special reference to India.

4. How are life course events connected to gender roles? Examine with examples.

5. Write short notes on any four of the following:

Gender stratification

Queer feminism

Bodies at adolescence

Media as an agent of socialisation

Matrilineal Nayars

SECTION

6. Examine the role of women in the social -reform and nationalist movements in colonial India.

7. Locate the issues of gender in a discussion of class system as postulated by Karl Marx and Max Weber.

8. Critically examine unwaged domestic labour. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

9. Describe and differentiate between any two of the following: 2xlO

First wave feminism and Second wave feminism

Women in Colonial Period and Post -Colonial Period

Gender from the perspective of Tribe and Caste


Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
  • School of Agriculture (SOA)
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
  • School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
  • School of Education (SOE)
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  • School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
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  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
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Subjects

  • Anthropology And Methods Of Research
  • Archaeological Anthropology
  • Comparative Ethnography
  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Gender And Society
  • Human Genetics
  • Human Growth And Development
  • Physical Anthropology
  • Practicing Anthropology
  • Social Anthropology