Aspects usually covered by a Publisher’s Contract

Explain the structure of ISBN? In what way is ISBN useful in publishing?

Explain the concept of copyright and related rights. 

Describe the structure of a publishing house and briefly discuss the tasks carried out by each department. 

How is book publishing different from newspaper publishing? What are the qualities needed in a book publisher and those needed in a newspaper publisher? 

Imagine yourself as a boss of a Website company. Using this picture, critically analyse what aspects you will promote of Indian art and culture in contemporary period and how will you do that using gender perspective of cyberspace.

Discuss street theatre in India from a gender perspective, using this picture as the theme.

Choose a novel written by an Indian women writer that has been adapted into a film (Bollywood or Vernacular/Regional). Critically analyse that novel and the film using the units of Block 1 and Block 2.

 Go to a public library near your home. Pick up a book on women autobiography or biography. Critically analyze it from gender perspectives. Refer to Block 1 to discuss the terms, histories, forms, modes and theoretical challenges that the writer must have faced to get published.

Imagine yourself as a Dalit unskilled labour’s daughter, who has got through an IIT. Use this picture to discuss your life narrative from the perspective of voices from the margin and your struggle for making a successful career.

. Critically read Block 4, Unit 2 and Unit 3. Explain the relationship between women and election with the help of examples. 

Read Block 2, Unit 3, ‘Women and Partition’. Analyze the debates related to the Unit in the context of women’s body and violence by giving any examples. 

Critically read Block 1, Feminism and the Political, Unit 1 and Unit 2. Do you agree that the conventional understanding of the category called ‘political’ helps us to gain the knowledge and build up the feminist perspectives on the category of political? Explain it

 Watch any of these films: Section 375 or Article 15 or Pink or Thappad. Critically analyze the filmthrough semiotics and psychoanalysis from gender perspective of caste, religion, ethnicity and class.

Imagine yourself as a novelist. Use this picture as the theme of your novel. Give the synopsis of your novel. Critically analyze your novel discussing the elements of sexual subjects and writing differences in the fictional narrative you have created. 

Read Unit 2 in Block 5, discuss the feminist critique of psychoanalysis in the context of Freud and Lacan.

Critically read Block 2, Unit 2, evaluate the formation and historical background of peasant and working-class women in India. Discuss the contemporary situation of peasant and working-class women in India by providing suitable examples.

Critically read Block 1, Unit 1 and 2. What kinds of debates emerged in the feminist movements in the western and Indian history? Discuss with suitable examples.

Do you think that age group specific material should be prepared for children? If so, give reasons. 

 Are safety education materials practically relevant for children?