Women, Men, and Others: The Challenges of Mainstreaming Gender History in the Classroom

This article explores how teaching courses which engage with questions of gender prove challenging to both teachers and students in the context of the graduate classroom of a university in India. The contexts within which disciplinary space for social history was created are explored to argue that this remains a contested area. Also, the institutional setting and its implications are opened up for scrutiny. I discuss, in this context, the languages used within academic discourse and their hierarchies, how students participate in discussions, and the ways in which these can be taken forward.