In 2006, Zubaan began a new and fascinating project: Poster Women, a visual mapping of the women’s movement in India through the posters the movement had produced. The idea was to ask what the history of the movement would look like through its posters and the visual images it had used, the various campaigns that the movement has engaged with and the forms these campaigns have taken over a period of time.
Over the next few weeks, the Indian Cultural Forum will be sharing some of the posters thematically organised by Zubaan and archived in the hope that it will serve not only women’s groups, feminist activists and other involved with the women’s movement in India, but will also be useful for students and researchers in the field of women’s studies, visual culture, arts and aesthetics and anyone who loves posters!
stri-purush vriddhidar
April 30, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Source: Mahila Samakhya
Location: Baroda, Gujarat
Language: Gujarati
Translation:
Male – Female Ratio
In India there is a lack of 30.5 million women in comparison to men.
do not think so…
April 30, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Location: Punjab
Language: English, Punjabi
Other details: Landscape, colour, paper
kya ye inka gharelu maamla
April 30, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Source: Samaan Sashakta Mahila Andolan – Oxfam (India) Trust
Location: Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh
Language: Hindi
Other details: Portrait, colour, paper
gender equality series 3
April 30, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Source: Provenance Unknown
gender equality series 11
May 2, 2011 at 9:57 am
Source: Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan
Location: Kutch, Gujarat
