A World of Equals: A Textbook on Gender attempts to sensitise readers to gender and gender-related issues. Using examples from popular literature, films and advertisements, the book raises issues relating to inequalities of race, religious affiliation, class, caste, disability and the sexual spectrum, and stimulates discussions on these subjects.
The book is accompanied by an app that provides links to resources mentioned in the text.
Susie Tharu is a founder-member of Anveshi, Hyderabad.
A. Suneetha is Senior Fellow at Anveshi, Hyderabad.
Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda teaches at The EFL University, Hyderabad and is associated with Anveshi.
Acknowledgements Publisher’s Acknowledgements Preface Unit 1 What is Gender, and Why Should We Study It? 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Gender Equality Milestones 1.3 The Context Today 1.4 Further Reading Unit 2 Socialisation: Making Women, Making Men 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Preparing for Womanhood 2.3 Preparing for Manhood 2.4 First Lessons in Caste 2.5 Different Masculinities Unit 3 Being Boy 3.1 Introduction 3.2 A Village Boyhood 3.3 School Days 3.4 College Styles 3.5 Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Unit 4 Housework: Invisible Labour 4.1 Do Mothers have Sundays? 4.2 Share the Load Unit 5 Missing Women: Sex Selection and its Consequences 5.1 Declining Sex Ratio 5.2 Demographic Consequences Unit 6 Looking at Knowledge through the Lens of Gender 6.1 Point of View 6.2 Inequalities in the Structure of Knowledge 6.3 Across the Academy 6.4 Further Reading Unit 7 Sexual Harassment: SAY NO! 7.1 Sexual Harassment, Not ‘Eve-Teasing’ 7.2 Consent and Relationships 7.3 Coping with Everyday Harassment 7.4 Further Reading Unit 8 Women’s Work: Its Politics and Economics 8.1 Fact vs. Fiction 8.2 Unrecognised and Unaccounted For 8.3 Wage Differentials between Women and Men 8.4 Women in the Working Environment Unit 9 Domestic Violence: Speaking Out 9.1 Is Home a ‘Safe’ Place? 9.2 When Women Unite 9.3 Rebuilding Lives 9.4 Further Reading Unit 10 Whose History? Questions for Historians and Others 10.1 Reclaiming a Past 10.2 Historical and Changeable? 10.3 Sources Historians Use Today 10.4 Further Reading Unit 11 Gender Spectrum: Beyond the Binary 11.1 Two or Many? 11.2 Gender Discrimination 11.3 Transgenderism 11.4 Homosexuality Unit 12 Thinking about Sexual Violence 12.1 Blaming the Victim 12.2 Masculinity and Sexual Violence 12.3 Further Reading
Unit 13 Becoming Man 13.1 Introduction 13.2 What Do Hairstyles Tell Us? 13.3 A Dangerous Model of Masculinity 13.4 Changing Masculinities in Hindi Cinema 13.5 Imprints of Masculinity Unit 14 Just Relationships: Being Together as Equals 14.1 Mary Kom and Onler 14.2 Romance in South-Indian Cinema 14.3 Love and Acid Don’t Mix 14.4 Love Letters 14.5 Mothers, Fathers and Family 14.6 Further Reading Unit 15 Our Bodies, Our Health 15.1 Body Parts: What They Are, What They Do . . . 15.2 Making Babies 15.3 Contraceptive for Men 15.4 Contraceptives for Women 15.5 Dangerous Stuff 15.6 Foul Play! Bibliography