Feminist Psychologies: Identities, Relations, and Well-Being in India

This book aims to be a comprehensive resource that will apprise readers to the complex dynamics of the psychological interiors of women and others in the sex and gender spectrum grappling with socio-political and cultural constraints.

U. Vindhya (PhD) is former Professor of Psychology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad campus, India. Her research concerns are located in the interface of psychology and feminism, focusing on gender-based violence, women’s mental health, trafficking, and the psychology of women’s political activism. Her publications include the co-edited Handbook of International Perspectives on Feminisms: Psychology, Women, Culture and Rights (Springer), which won the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (the United States). She has been a recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Fellowship, the United States; South Asian Visiting Scholarship, Oxford University, the United Kingdom; and was Visiting Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. She was past President of National Academy of Psychology (India).