“Gender norms shape and are shaped by power structures, the positioning of human subjects within these structures are central to all feminist theory”.
Cynthia Cockburn
Following Johan Galtung’s idea of structural and cultural violence one can find that the appearance of violence in the society is multifaceted. Violence, as observed by many theoreticians and practitioners, is a destructive natural force. Whenever the issue of violence is addressed, it is the living beings who are under scanner because without the pulse of life the pain and sufferings of violence cannot be felt. If one hurts a statue; it cannot express its feelings, maximum consequence is that the statue is broken. But in case of living individuals; violence plays affective role. The predominant heteronormative structure of the society makes women worst victims of violence although the contemporary trend of violence expands from gender binary to diversities and contemporary research also intends to focus that. Following Michele Bograd’s concept, violence against women stems from different inequalities on the societal level. (Bograd, 1990) The terms ‘femicide’, ‘gendercide’; indicate a wide area of gender -based violence. Popular culture has played a crucial role in exposing women’s violence on the screen. The present paper attempts to examine domestic violence on women through the analysis of selected films from Bollywood. The movies would capture the from 1990s to 2006. The films intend to show the following issues in terms of its academic and practical relevance to the anthropological sciences
- Violence on women’s bodies at different levels
- The root causes of violence on women
- In spite of being the victims of rape, sexual abuse, stalking how women come forward to resist the aftereffects of violence
- The changing nature of violence from the social to the global level
