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IGNOU MANE-04 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
SECTION-A
1. Define patriarchy? Discuss the theoretical perspectives on its origin.
2. What is gender? Evaluate the concepts of masculinity and femininity.
3. Discuss socialisation and examine critically the role of family and schools in the gendered socialisation of a child.
4. Discuss family from the perspective of sexuality and heteronormativity with examples.
5. Write short notes on any four of the following:
a) Marxist Feminism
b) Queer Politics
c) Nayar Women
d) Bodies at menarche
e) Domestic labour
SECTION- B
6. Evaluate different life course events and their implications on women.
7. Discuss the role of women in the Telangana and Chipko movements.
8. Examine how globalisation affects gender behaviour.
9. Examine the identity, status, and role of women in caste-based societies.
10. Discuss and differentiate between any two of the following:
a. Sex and gender
b. Liberal and radical feminisms
c. American and French psychoanalytical theory
IGNOU MANE-04 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
SECTION A
1. Provide a discussion on the concept of gender and differences between gender and sex.
2. Discuss the status of women in tribal societies.
3. Discuss feminist psychoanalytical theories of gender.
4. Examine gender in anthropological studies.
5. Attempt any two of the following:
a. Patriarchy in kinship
b. Gender stereotype
c. Social construction feminism
SECTION B
6. Discuss two agents of scoialisation.
7. Examine different life course events and their implications on women.
8. Assess sexuality and hetero-normativity in the context of family.
9. Discuss critically unwaged domestic labour.
10. Attempt any two of the following:
a. Disabled bodies
b. Nayyar women
c. Gender inclusive globalisation