The present venture seeks to give voices to those voiceless women's
issues which have been unheard and undermined in the academia of
psychology. Though greater international and national visibility and
emphasis have been accorded to women's issues, there have been very few
attempts to discern and demarcate what constitutes a psychology of women
and gender within the discipline of academic psychology in India. This
book identifies principal areas of investigation including issues of
women and paid employment, women's physical, mental, reproductive
health, issues associated with family and marriage, empowerment of women
analysed from biopsychosocial perspectives. Compendium of researches
emphasize on transition from adjustment to change in the lives of women
as well as manifestations of power relations in human activities and
relationship using the gender lens to make clear issues of "equality and
power, right and privilege, sameness and difference" instead of just
being a collection of 'add-on' data on women.