The study of images of women in media and literature has been a significant area of concern for the last four decades because images as ‘the study of signification’ and ‘meaning production,’ play a vital role in shaping the perceptions and consciousness of various segments of society in relation to the lives, roles, problems and experiences of different categories of women as women and as autonomous citizens of society. Though it must be made clear that the significations and meanings do not reside as much in the images themselves as in the socio-economic and cultural contexts and framework within which these images are produced, distributed and consumed by the spectators. The inherent link of these images to the hierarchical structures of power and culturally dominant representations goes a long way in making them appear ‘natural’, homogenous and permanent but the reality is altogether different. As Roland Barthes points out that the meanings related to these images are ‘produced through the codes at work in representations, and that while meanings might appear to be natural, obvious, immanent, they are in fact produced: they are constructed through identifiable processes of signification at work in all representation.