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!
insaniyat ka dharm nibhana…
March 9, 2011 at 2:16 am
Source: Sahiyar Stree Sangathan
Location: Vadodara, Gujarat
Language: Hindi
political participation series 13
March 15, 2011 at 3:48 am
biradari panchayat
March 8, 2011 at 5:04 am
Source: Action India, Sabla Sangh
Artist: Veermati
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
political participation series 2
March 8, 2011 at 2:24 am
Source: Asmita
Artist: Neelu Jadav
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Other Details: Landscape, brown and black, paper
This poster was printed especially for a training program conducted by Asmita to encourage local self governance. This training program was started almost 15 years ago and over 14,000 women have participated in it.
andhere kamron aur…
March 8, 2011 at 2:10 am
Source: CPI (ML)
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Language: Hindi
Other Details: Portrait, colour, paper
