Gender Justice and Feminist Jurisprudence

Unit 1 — Gender and Gender Justice

Understanding Sex, Gender, Gender Dysphoria and Gender Identities: LGBTQA · Private-public Dichotomy · Indicators of Status: Difference in · likelihood of survival · female foeticide, assigned human worth · and control over property, valued goods and services, working conditions, knowledge and information, political processes, symbolic representation, one’s body, daily lifestyles, reproductive processes

Unit 2 — Patriarchy and Feminist Jurisprudence

Patriarchy, evolution of patriarchy in India, effect of patriarchy on men · Feminism: Liberal feminism, Radical feminism, Socialist/Marxist feminism, I-feminism, Eco-feminism, Cultural feminism, The sameness and difference debate · Understanding Indian Feminist Jurisprudence

• Feminist legal theory

Unit 3 — The Third Gender

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019: Definitions: Section 2 (i) “person with intersex variations” · Section 2 (k) “transgender person” · Prohibition against discrimination: Sections 3 · Recognition of the Identity of the Transgender Persons: Sections 4- 7 · Education, employment and health of transgenders: Sections 9 · 12 · National Council for Transgender Persons: Sections 16-17 · Critical Analysis of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019

• Human Rights: LGBT, Refugees and Aliens

Unit 4 — International Instruments on Gender Justice

UDHR: Preamble, Articles 1, 2,3,7,8,12,16,18,23 and 25 · CEDAW · The Yogyakarta Principles, 2007 and 2017

• Position of Women under International instruments — Salient features of Convention for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and optional protocols to the Convention
• The UN Human Rights System and UDHR

Unit 5 — Reproductive Rights

Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: Sections 86-90 · Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971: Sections 3,4, and 5 · Maternity Benefits Act, 1964, Sections 4- 13 · PC and PNDT Act 1994

• 2.1Pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
• Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and Factories Act, 1948
• Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994

Unit 6 — Laws Protecting Women Against Domestic Violence, Dowry and Sexual Harassment

1. Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act, 2005 · Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 · Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
• Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013