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A new iconography of the Indian women seems to be emerging which challenges the traditional images and roles of women. Dramatic ahanges in projecting the woman reflect changes in societal norms and taboos-in a country which has both defiled the woman and idolised her. These roles for the modern woman are subversive, mapping out bold new frontiers for her to explore. the effects are persuasive in being projected through the media, the fourth esate in society and through the popular genre of Hindi cinema. Set aganist the feminist discourse, these images raise diffeent questions about "seeing" the Indian woman. Traced over the century, they suggest an extraordinary transformation in imaging the Indian woman, as manifested in painting, photography, popular posters and classical cinema and as examined here in works by both men and women. In five seminal essaays this book examines cenral issues regarding the woman: whether she is regarded as a woman or a goddess; whether her body is treted as an object or subject of pleasure; if she has the freedom to move from the home to the world outside; if she is expected to play multiple roles or is perceived in her integral self; and if she has learnt now to re-assert her own power. Geeti Sen is an art historian trained at the Universities of Chicago and Calcutta. She was an art critic for the Times of India, Mumbai and India Today, Assistant Editor of the prestigious art journal Marg in Mumbai and for the past nine years the Editor of IIC Quarterly published from India International Centre, New Delhi. Her major books include Image and Imagination : Five ContemporaryArtists in India and Bindu : space and Time in Raza`s Vision. ISBN: 81-85822-88-3
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