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Chapter 1 of the book deals with midwives. Two chapters deal with religiosity. The chapter on women entrepreneurs traces their economic failures to the socially static patriarchal order. The fifth chapter poses the question where does one place the ‘discipline’ of women’s studies? Part ii has two chapters that deal with gendered politics, taking up political theories and redefining the security comprehensively and inclusively from humanitarian democratic principles.
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The Patriarchal World View of the Tamils in Sri Lanka has found expression in the ideology, practices and rituals of Hinduism. The research through such as identification process makes an attempt to raise the consciousness of the community towards eradication of such discrimination against women, to reach a status of equality.
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The reasons for the emergence of new rituals, cult-based religious practices and the increasing involvement of women in these activities becomes one aspect of the study. It further focuses on the religious experiences of women across ethnicities and religions, and tries to decipher whether and how patriarchal processes are implicated in them. The study poses questions whether women introduced to female-centred religiosity have provided themselves with new models of independence and personal power.
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The book explores the role of women as ideologues, agents, activists and visionaries as part of the movement. It deciphers the structural inequalities pertaining to the secondary status ascribed to them through discrimination and all forms of oppression and the process of the transformation they seek to restructure. As a historical narrative it traces the movement from the precolonial to the colonial periods and finally to contemporary history. It has a two way research methodology. Precolonial and colonial periods are
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This book contains a significant collection of essays that looks at contemporary Sri Lankan women’s creative writing in English. The essays in this volume capture a range of interests, issues, voices and even texts and attest to a vigorous, vibrant and creatively alive culture and literature that has through time evolved in many different directions. The continuities/ departures and border crossings seen in the essays, point to ways in which creative writing in English by contemporary Sri Lankan women can be read. The
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The book, through a study of Hindu socio-cultural and religious signs, explores the shifting meanings of the term ‘femininity’ across time and space. While showing how these constructions of femininity lie deeply embedded in socio-political and cultural processes, the book also reveals how these constructions always place women in discriminatory, secondary positions handing out norms and structures into which females are compelled to socialise themselves.
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Nation, nationalism and ethnicity are indeed polemical constructs, sometimes imagined, sometimes historicised and sometimes politically and culturally grounded as emanating from lived experiences through and cross space and time. But how and to what extent they cross cut gender, creating new paradigms is a process that is undertaken in this publication by the various feminist scholars.
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This is a significant collection of essays that honour Kumari Jayawardena, a feminist scholar, activist and social scientist. The essays explore topics and contemporary debates that resonate closely with Jayawardena’s work on gender, nationalism, race and class.
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The book is far more than a tribute to the memory of Bernadeen Silva. Through the life of this unassuming and lovable campaigner for justice it captures fascinating insights in to some of the social and political activism of the past half century, much of which is unknown to the younger generation and perhaps forgotten by the older generation.
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The study on Women Migrant Workers and Trafficking in Sri Lanka sheds light on a burning issue that has not been researched extensively in recent time in Sri Lanka. It looks specifically at why and how women are trafficked in the process of migration and what the consequences are. The specific recommendations identify the need to address root causes and suggest community based mechanisms of vigilance committees and rights protection networks.
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