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This book is an attempt to retrieve the hidden agenda of the many women in history. It discusses women’s activism and political aims, dearth of women’s participation in mainstream Sri Lankan politics and documents their active involvement in alternative political movements such as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) being the most prominent examples. It also analyses the women’s exclusion from political life in terms of wider debate-the issue of male hegemony which i
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The book reveals through detailed interviews that despite socio-cultural and economic differences, and in the face of inter caste conflicts there is a common theme of gender suffering that tragically permeates the lives of women. Forms of gender suffering which exists in different guises through along historical run in Tamil Nadu, exaceated by the historically continuing encroachment of Brahmanic values are successfully brought to light.
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Rubber plantation labour remained insignificant in national politics in comparison to the Tea industry, thus remained largely unresearched. It also seeks to identify gender specific conditions of work that are specific to women plantation workers.
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The publication is an attempt to put together some thoughts that have emerged over the years. The first section deals with theories of feminism and the second and third sections deals with theories and their general contradictions in the application of these theories.
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Vivienne Goonewardena was a prominent leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). She was one of the best known personalities of the Left, front line fighter in the anti-imperialist cause since the 1930s and the foremost woman leader of the island’s progressive movement.
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