Rekha Pande

Prof. Rekha Pande is the Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad. India. She has been the founding member of two Centers for Women’s Studies, one at Maulana Azad National Urdu University and the other at the University of Hyderabad. Her work is in the Inter disciplinary area of History and Women’s Studies. She has to her credit Fourteen books and about 150 papers in National and International Journals, Proceedings and Book chapters. She has been the Editor of, International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), Rout ledge Taylor and Francis group, U.K. She also edited Foreign Policy Analysis, which is published by Blackwell, USA. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal, Palgrave Communication, London, Palgrave Macmillan, International Feminist Journal of Politics, IFJP, Taylor and Francis, Rout ledge, U.K. International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR). USA. She received the International Visiting Fellowship in the School of Policy Studies, in the University of Bristol, U.K. Academic Fellow, University of Buffalo, USA and International Visiting Scholar, at Maison De Research, Paris and Visiting Professorship at the University of Artois, Arras, France. Dr. Pande has been the National Core Group member of Mahila Samkhya Programme (Women’s empowerment), Government of India. As part of this programme, she was the Executive Council member of the Mahila Samakhya programme in Uttaranchal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. She has been a member of the Feminist Jurisprudence Committee, National Commission for Women and Core Advisory Group and Sensitization and capacity building Towards Eliminating child labor, and Government of Andhra Pradesh. She also served as a National Resource Person for the University Grants Commission (UGC) for Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education. She is the Member of Board of Studies in a large number of Universities in India. She has widely traveled in India and abroad to deliver Key note addresses and lectures and present papers in National and International Conferences

Publications

Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging
Rekha Pande, Theo van der Weide. © 2018. 361 pages.
As people grow older, cultural issues arise. Recognizing how social influences guide and restrict people leads to a better understanding of one’s self and helps people as they...