Social Scientist The Pre-text Jasodhara Bagchi 1 Representation of Gender in Folk Paintings of Bengal Ratnabali Chatterjee 7 The Sight/Site of Woman in the Art of the Forties: Reality, Realism and Representation Chilka Ghosh 22 Looking for Reality in Romance Jayeeta Bagchi 30 Displaying the Modern Woman: Feminism in the Labyrinths of Media Culture Ipshita Chanda 40 Just Switch Off] Television: Creating the "Modern" Woman NHanjana Gupta 61 Globalisation and Representations of Women in Indian Cinema Sangeeta Datta 71 Hum Aapke Main Koun...f: Pluralizing Pleasures of Viewership Shohini Ghosh 83 BOOK REVIEW 91 ______