<![CDATA[Law and the Image]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/browse/tag/woman?output=rss2 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:51:03 +0000 ritwickpal@gmail.com (Law and the Image) © & ® by The Media Lab, Jadavpur University, 2011 Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Woman versus Womanliness in India: An Essay in Cultural and Political Psychology]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/40

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Title

Woman versus Womanliness in India: An Essay in Cultural and Political Psychology

Subject

Cultural Studies/ Psychology

Description

The essay involves an analysis of the constricted role of woman in Indian society and public affairs as part of an ongoing process of civilisational change.

Creator

Ashis Nandy

Source

At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture, Pp. 32 – 46

Publisher

Oxford University Press, India

Date

1980

Contributor

The Media Lab

Format

PDF

Language

English

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Text

The essay involves an analysis of the constricted role of woman in Indian society and public affairs as part of an ongoing process of civilizational change. This demands an identification of the structure of individual and cultural defences which have traditionally given meaning to the role of women in Indian society. The author identifies the classic instance in the psychological defence of woman turning against self by identifying with the aggressive male, drawing attention to the way in which certain social institutions have made woman herself a participant in her self-repudiation and intra-aggression. To ignore this accept of womanhood in India is to abridge the Indian awareness of some of the latent justifications of oppression in this society

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Paper
Woman versus Womanliness in India.pdf
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:51:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Love in a Colonial Climate: Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Bengal]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/39

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Title

Love in a Colonial Climate: Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Subject

Cultural Studies/ Asian Studies

Description

A study of the 19th century Bengali society and the changing notions of marriage, conjugality and companionship ushered in through an acquaintance to Western worldviews through colonial rule.

Creator

Tapan Raychaudhuri

Source

Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, (May, 2000), pp. 349-378.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press.

Date

2000

Contributor

The Media Lab

Rights

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/stable/313067

Format

PDF

Language

English

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Text

Child Marriage and its impact of the child bride's life through personal accounts.
Suppressed sexuality and closed households facilitating extra-marital relations which, even when found were suppressed within the family to prevent "public" denouncement of the family name.
the widow's plight.
Victorian puritan ethos among the Brahmos and the western-educated. Suppression of sexuality as "vulgar",a stand point incommensurate with certain devotional modes and practises prevalent even in Hinduism which ar steeped in sexual discourses.
The lure of "romance" in the post-Hindu College reformist era. Liberalism and introduction to western notions of companionship through literature. The lure mostly unrequitted, yet call for "women's education" rises in which underlies the desire for an "educated companion".

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PDF
Love in a Colonial Climate_Marriage Sex and Romance in NineteenthCentury Bengal.pdf
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:48:33 +0000 <![CDATA[Advertisement: Rexona Beauty Contest]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/37

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Title

Advertisement: Rexona Beauty Contest

Subject

Newspaper advertisement

Description

Advertisement in the Bengali newspaper Dainik Basumati by Rexona, inviting participation to vote for the most beautiful woman among the selected candidates.

Source

National Library, Kolkata

Publisher

Dainik Basumati

Date

1955-04-06

Contributor

The Media Lab

Format

JPG

Language

English

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Paper

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1577 X 2087
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:29:13 +0000 <![CDATA[Bipasha 02]]> https://lawimage.medialabju.org/items/show/27

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Title

Bipasha 02

Subject

Feature film clip

Description

Director:Agradoot
Producer: Chitra Prayojak
Story: Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Screenplay and Lyrics: Gouriprasanna Majumdar
Editing: Baidyanath Chattopadhyay
Art: Satyen Chowdhury
Cinematography: Bibhuti Laha, Bijoy Ghosh
Music: Rabin Chattopadhyay
Cast: Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas, Kamal Mitra, Pahari Sanyal, Chhaya Debi, Lily Chatterjee, etc.
Distributor: Chandimata Films Pvt Ltd.
Released on 26/01/1962 at Minar, Bijoli, Chhabighar.

synopsis: Bipasha (Suchitra), born of a Bengali father and a Punjabi mother, flees Pakistan as a refugee after partition. Trained in a missionary institution, she takes up the job of tribal welfare and lands up in Panchet, where she meets Dibyendu (Uttam), a Bengali engineer. Dibyendu has also been deprived of familial love and bondage since childhood, and the two craving hearts become one and decide to get married. On the day of marriage, Dibyendu learns that he is his mother's illegitimate child. He leaves in search of his parents, a journey free himself of the stigma and in Allahabad ultimately finds not only her mother but the father as well. Bipasha runs along by his side and they are reunited after the search for a legitimate lineage ends successfully.

Creator

Agradoot

Source

DVD

Date

1962-01-26

Contributor

The Media Lab

Format

AVI

Language

Bengali

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Original Format

DVD

Duration

02:22 mins.

Compression

AVI

Producer

Chitra Prayojok

Director

Agradoot
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