DEPARTMENT AND CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES

Mother Teresa Women’s University is a State University of Tamilnadu, which was established in the year 1984 by the enactment of Tamilnadu Act 15. It bears the name Laureate and the global servant and the humanitarian Mother Teresa . Mother Teresa Women’s University aims to extend its service to women students of all communities. The Department and Centre for Women’s Studies works to empower women through various capacity building measures including Feminist theory building, inculcating gender sensitivity on Women’s Studies perspectives, Gender Literacy, Gender Education and Enhancement, Communication and Leadership skill etc., to bring Social, Economic, Political and Cultural  Empowerment and  Gender Equality. ‘Women’s Studies’ as a discipline of academia, helps to transform other disciplines by integrating feminist perspectives. The various activities of the scholars and activists in the Department and Centre for Women’s Studies  paves way to bring out more visible research and policy debates which would be raised by women from dalit, tribal, labouring, sexual and other minority communities including religion. The Centre for Women’s Studies plays a vital role to bring out change in the society understanding more about women and highlighting participation of women in the formulation of policy in establishing a just and secular society in India.             

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  Dr. S.  Meena Priyadharshini

Assistant Professor,Member- Entrepreneurship Development Cell , Publication Committee/Gender & Progress (University Journal)/News Flash/Web Journals , Women Empowerment Cell , Academic Audit

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M.A.,M.Phil., Ph.D

English Literature, Feminism, Feminist Theories, ELT & Communicative English

 

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Mother Teresa Women's University Research and Extension Centre
Department & Centre for Women's Studies
Plot No: B3, SIPCOT- Nilakottai Industrial complex,
Madurai to Dindigul -NH -7,
Nilakottai Taluk,
Pallapatty,
Dindigul District 

Dept. Mail-id        : dcws.mtwu@gmail.com