HSM Gender Studies Book For CSS By Raheel Safi Khalid

Important Note About This Book :

• Gender studies is one of the most popular subjects among CSS aspirants .
• The most distinguishing feature of the book is that it has solved questions as well to give students a flavour of how to attempt questions in a manner that would yield high scores.

Content

Introduction to Gender Studies

• What is Gender Studies?
• What is Women Studies?
• Difference between Gender and Women Studies
• Gender Studies and its Multidisciplinary Nature
• Autonomy Versus Integration Debate
• State of Gender Studies in Pakistan

‘Social Construction of Gender

• Historicizing Constructionism
• Social Construction of Gender
• Nature Versus Nurture Debate in Gender Development
• Queer Theory
• Masculinities and Femininity

Feminist Theories and Practice

• Quoted Definitions of Feminism
• Liberal Feminism
• Marxist Feminism
• Radical Feminism…
• Social Feminism
• Men’s Feminism
• Psychoanalytic Feminism
• Post – Modern Feminism

Feminist Movements

• Feminist Movements: A Bird’s Eye View
• The First Wave of Feminism
• Second Wave of Feminism
• Third Wave of Feminism
• UN Conferences on Women
• Feminist Movement in Pakistan

Gender and Development

• Colonial and Capitalistic Perspectives of Gender
• Gender Analysis of Development Theories
• Gender Approaches to Development
• Globalization and Gender
• Gender Impact of Globalization

Status of Women in Pakistan

• Women’s Health in Pakistan
• Women’s Education in Pakistan
• Issues Faced by Working Women in Pakistan

Gender and Governance

• Definition of Governance
• Suffragist Movement
• Impact of Political Quota on Women in Pakistan

Gender Based Violence

• Strategies to Eliminate Violence Against Women

Case Studies

• Case Study of Mukhtaran Mai
• Case Study of Malala Yousafzai
• Case Study of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy