BGS-012: Gender Based Violence

In this course, we will investigate the category of patriarchy that is central to the social and political struggles of women and marginal categories in relation to violence. At the same time how the concept of patriarchy can be read from different ideological perspectives. The society that is based on structural inequality and gender subjugation is often justified through violence. The social institutions of caste, religion, and culture, along with other institutions like family and state are necessary to study in the context of violence. The violence against women in communities, violence within communities, how structural and systemic violence taken through the manifestation of power and patriarchy. The student will study about domestic violence as a universal phenomenon. It maps the history of domestic violence, till making of domestic violence laws. The sexual violence is faced by women cutting across class, caste, community. The incidences of sexual violence are taking place within the private family spaces and also in the public spaces. So, what are the existing laws and offences related to it? The student will learn about the phenomenon of female foeticide and infanticide or missing girl child cultures. What are the legal measures taken by Government of India to address this issue? The women who fall into the category of ‘criminals’ as defined by law will be studied and how protective laws and policies that are in place to safeguard their interest. Thus, you will learn about the existing constitutional and other legal provisions safeguarding rights of women prisoners. In a similar way, the effort is to make you understand about the several definitions of cybercrimes, cybercrimes and gender question and how the cybercrimes operate in the society. The inquiry about the history of communal violence and the related laws in India. Caste is one of the components that fragmented human beings. It determined the social location, thus the debates oncaste and violence against women from the gender perspective will be discussed. We will learn about political conflicts, how it poses a challenge at various levels in the democratic institutions. The role of the state is significant in debilitate hierarchies which are deeply rooted in culture and social structures in the society. The course will also explore how and to what extent same-sex relationships are conferred legal recognition in India, the progress made in the recent past. On the other hand, why it is important for law to recognise same-sex relationships or what effects does the non-recognition have on such relationships. It will also explain to the predominant forms of institutional and social violence against LGBTQI + people. It distinguishes institutional and social violence from other kinds of violence. The violence and discrimination against the LGBTQI + people. On the basis of their sexual identities, how LGBTQI + community face abuse, other kinds of violence in India. The violence and the discrimination exist despite the fact that the Supreme Court of India on 6 September 2018 in Navtej Singh Johar versus Union of India has ruled that the consensual homosexual act no longer constitutes a crime. Thus, by critically engaging into legal interventions, the attempt is to find out that the law alone is/are not sufficient to eradicate violence, but at larger level, we need to map the structural and power imbalance between the ways the social relationships are organized in the patriarchal or the male-dominated society.This course also articulates the category of reproduction and its association with biology. On the other hand, the law is conceptualised as an instrument to regulate the social realm. For instance, the concern of law with reproduction would appear to be counter intuitive. What are the debates related to reproductive healths emerges as an important issue in human rights law. What is the role of courts in ensuring access to reproductive rights, especially in the Indian context? It explains us about Assisted Human Reproductive Technologies (ART) are advanced and innovative medical developments that help people to give birth to child/children. There are numerous types of ART such as artificial insemination, in virto fertilization (IVF), gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT), Zygote intra-fall opian transfer (ZIFT), reproductive cloning, intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and Surrogacy, its forms. How the interrelationship between mental health states such as mental distress, mental health problem, and mental disorder occurs and also understand the signs and symptoms of common mental disorders. By dealing with the Occupational health and safety is an important endeavor and to achieve the goal and inform us how several laws are also provisions related to safety of women.