Abstract
This essay discusses how the imagination of women in India is framed up by the gender-biased mythical representations. By looking at the mythical representations that are circulated through centuries in many popular mages, paintings and calendar-portraits, a discursive pattern can be found that has positioned women in a secondary level, belonging to men. The family itself becomes a political site in the process of normalizing women’s submissiveness to men by comparing their actions with the Goddesses. By interrogating the gendered position of Goddess like Lakshmi and her male counterpart Lord Vishnu, this essay attempts to problematize with the mode of representation in religious visual images. I conclude by arguing that these religious representations in visual images have negative impact on the Hindu women, especially, in rural areas, and thus, keep the unhealthy gender role intact in Indian society.
Highlights
DOI10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i1.2022.66“No man, even in anger, should ever do anything that is disagreeable to his wife; for happiness, joy, virtue and everything depend on the wife
By looking at the mythical representations that are circulated through centuries in many popular mages, paintings and calendar-portraits, a discursive pattern can be found that has positioned women in a secondary level, belonging to men
Legacy of Patriarchal God and The Politics of Myth-Making: Locating the Gendered Position in Religious Visual Art position of Goddess like Lakshmi and her male counterpart God Vishnu, this paper attempts to problematize with the mode of representation in religious visual images
Summary
“No man, even in anger, should ever do anything that is disagreeable to his wife; for happiness, joy, virtue and everything depend on the wife. This paper seeks to understand how the imagination of women in rural India is framed up by the gendered visual representations. By looking at the mythical representations that are circulated through centuries in many popular mages, paintings and calendar-portraits, a discursive pattern can be found that has positioned women in a secondary level, belonging to men. Legacy of Patriarchal God and The Politics of Myth-Making: Locating The Gendered. Doi: Legacy of Patriarchal God and The Politics of Myth-Making: Locating the Gendered Position in Religious Visual Art position of Goddess like Lakshmi and her male counterpart God Vishnu, this paper attempts to problematize with the mode of representation in religious visual images. The paper argues that these religious representations in visual images have negative impact on the Hindu women, especially, in rural areas, and keep the unhealthy gender inequality intact in Indian society. The preference is given to rural areas because these images and calendar representation, bear a special meaning in a rather under-developed socio-cultural space
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