A Cambridge University Press book, in the times of Covid -19

 A Cambridge University Press book,  in the times of Covid -19. Very happy to share that today morning by post I received two copies of the Cambridge handbook of :  The International  Psychology of Women. I am very proud to see that among all the  the universities of the World listed in this book University of Hyderabad also stands proudly as I happen to be the only Indian author contributing a lead paper in this under the title,  Feminist Theory and Methodologies: crossing Disciplinary boundaries along with Wen Liu from the State University of New York and Hsunhui Tsen from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Our article is  a lead article in this. After several, may be seven or eight revisions ,  if I recollect correctly, spanning a period of three to three and a half years,  and often, when I wanted to just give up and say to myself forget it, this is finally seeing the light of the day.  As a Feminist teaching gender studies we always complain that there are not many books on Feminist theory from a non western perspective. Well this book is an anwer to this. Unfortunately due to the pandemic we could not launch this book. There was a major launch planned in Washington DC in the month of August 22nd to 25th and I had even booked my tickets for this.   This book rejects an approach that has been used by many editors  that consists of a single chapter from different countries and regions. A short chapter on psychology of women from a single country is necessarily shallow and does not promote an integrated and deeper understanding of the scientific foundation of the specific topics. Instead this work draw up a comprehensive list of topics in psychology that are critical to understanding the gendered lives of women. Each chapter has a lead author—a recognized authority on that topic and two other with a different region/ culture in the world. All the articles follow this format. There is no other book that has taken on the task of internationalizing our knowledge about the psychology of women, from a non western perspective , like this book. It provides a much-needed comprehensive reference to Theory and Methodologies in Psychology of Women, that are relevant across cultures. In the present article, given the different context, region and culture, myself ,  Wen Liu and Hsunhui Tseng,  got together and write about the feminist theories and the methodologies and the development of the Women’s Movement in India, China, Taiwan and Hongkong.  It was very challenging for i did not know the two scholars and had no idea of their women's movement and its development in these countries and to write an article with a wholestic perspective was difficult.  How ever, now when I look back,  it was fun to write on Feminist theory with two totally new scholars and getting to know the women's Movement and theoretical prerspectives from China, Taiwan and Hongkong. I only hope a large number of women's studies students and scholar, interested in non western theories , will find this a useful resource. I would highly recommend this book to all women's studies Scholars across the world and this is what the book is attempting to do.  Indeed a new collection to my library and I almost feel like I have got a life time achievement award.