Abstract

The purpose of initiating Women’s Studies as a course by UGC was to critically intervene into academics. There is a commonly adapted belief that Women’s Studies are for the sole benefit of women and women’s rights which in turn would result in men being treated as subordinates due to role reversal. This is a misconception as feminism advocates social justice and equality. Women’s Studies intervene in studying the various forms of oppression due to patriarchal set up which is based on caste, class, disability and sexuality. Women’s Studies also take on the task of providing a more accurate view of our history where women were rendered as invisible as their tasks were demarcated as non economic activities. By engaging with Women’s Studies you do not only take a task on which we can learn and evolve, moving things in the right direction from here on, in our current day. The National Policy on Education, 1986 introduced Women’s Studies as a course in colleges by playing the role of a positive interventionist in a male dominated regressive society. This paper would elaborate on the importance of feminist methodology in studying the society.