IIT Madras – Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Development studies and masculinist paradigms – Gender perspectives: HDI, GDI, Health, Education, Economy – Politics of representation – Family, identity and inheritance – The shift in gender issues in development: WID, WAD, GAD, WCD – Social exclusion and empowerment – Women, democracy and participation – Third World gender perspectives – Gender and environment – Science and technology – Gender, globalization and neocolonialism – Resistance to development – Gender and postmodern development – Post-development criticism – Alternative visions.