Anita Ghai

Advisor

Anita Ghai Retired as a dean and professor in School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, which she joined in 2015. Before this, Anita has been an associate professor in the Department of Psychology in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. Her interest is in Critical disability studies and issues of sexuality, care, psychology and gender. As a former fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, Anita has researched on issues of care of disabled women recipients, that is, their daughters and providers of care, that is, the mothers with leanings towards feminist and disability theory. Anita has been the former President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies. She has authored Re-thinking Disability in India, Routledge, New Delhi (2015), (Dis) Embodied Form: Issues of Disabled Women (2003), coauthored The Mentally Handicapped: Prediction of the Work Performance with Anima Sen and edited Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience (2018). She is also an editor for Disability and Society, Taylor and Francis, the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, and the Indian Journal of Gender studies.