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Table of Contents 1 Widow’s Intestate Succession Right to Her Husband’s Property: A Comparative Study of Kandyan law and Thesawalamai Law. -Ranjan Anno Helan Menaka 2 Dominant Patriarchal Ideologies in a Hegemonic Framework: Pedagogical Practices of a Sinhala Department - A Case Study -Minoli Wijetunga 3"Should my wives make a disturbance I will beat the whole of them… ": A Study of Gender-based Violence in Sinhala Folktales -Lal Medawattegedara 4 Globalization and a Reversion to Co
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With the aim of disseminating knowledge to a wider research community, the 20th volume of Nivedini, the Journal of Gender Studies is published online with open-access. By accessing and downloading Nivedini, the open-access journal of Gender Studies, you are indicating your acceptance of the terms and conditions of use available at the link below. The complete text can be downloaded from here:Nivedini-Journal on Gender Studies- 2014-2015 Terms and Conditions for Users NJGS Editorial Board Selvy Thiruchan
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Table of Contents 1. Female Stereotypes in Television Advertising: Representations and Repercussions T. N. K. Meegaswatta 2. Different Moments against Brahmanic Patriarchy: On the Genesis of a Radical History Smita M. Patil 3. Are We Better-Off? Rural Woman, Dry Zone Agriculture and Their Well-Being K. R. N. S. Rajamanthire and M. R. Pinnawala 4. Researching South Asian Women and Religious Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Perspectives from a Historian of Southeast Asia Barbara Watson And
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Table of Contents 1. From European Female Surplus to Indian Female Deficit: The Case of France in Comparative Historical Perspective Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux 2. 73rd Amendment Act: Empowerment of Rural Women at the Grassroots in India Nilma Srivastav 3. Ethnographic Evidence of Women's Knowledge and Women Practitioners in the Health Sector in Sri Lanka Selvy Thiruchandran 4. Feminist Ideas and Development Theory and Practice and Their Interaction Lakmini Premarathne 5. Dying to Marry or Marrying to
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Table of Contents 1. Indian Nationalism, Women's Liberation and Reactionary Masculinity in R. K. Narayan's The Dark Room, The Painter of Signs and The Vendor of Sweets Nadine Vanniasinkam 2. The Subjectivation of the Female Body in Some Novels by Assia Djebar and Gloria Naylor Houda Hamdi 3. Social Movements in Lesotho: Prospects and Challenges for Women Lea Molapo 4. Is there a Women's Movement in Sri Lanka? Selvy Thiruchandran 5. The Embedded Hierarchies: Status of Women in Medieval Indian Jain
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Table of Contents 1. Cosmology, Gender and Kinship: Role and Power Relationships of Himalayan Pastoral WOmen Subhadra Mitra Channa 2. Creating Intimate SPaces: Women's Marriage Contracts (Nikahnamas) Among Indian Muslims Rehana Ghadially 3. From Krupabai Satthianadhan to Shashi Deshpande: Mapping the Journey of the Feminist Novel in India Sumita Parmar 4. Dalit Women's Movement in Tamil Nadu Fatima Burnard Nadesan 5. Epistomology, Pedagogy and Politics of Women's Studies Kalpagam Umamaheswaran 6. Na
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Table of Contents 1. Gender based violence in Africa Christopher Chitereka 2. Discourse and Counter-discourse(s) on the New Bhikkuni Order in Sri Lanka: An Ethnographical Inquiry Premakumara De Silva 3. Migration and Gender Empowerment: Recent Trends and Emerging Issues Jayati Ghosh 4. Language and Gender Subjectivity Tankie Khalanyane 5. Documenting WOmen's Voices: Caste, Class and Gender in Tank Associations of Bahour, Pondicherry Archana Prasad 6. Well-Women Clinics: Women's Health 'Beyond
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Table of Contents Gender Representation in Literature 1. The Spaces of Conformity and Resistance: an Exploration of the Declaration of Gender and Sexuality of the Female Artists in Three Indian Novels Pavithra Tantrigoda 2. Patriarchy and Sinhala-Buddhist Nationalism: A Critical Reading of Maname and Sinhabahu Shanika Wijesinghe 3. Women's Sexuality and its Subversive Constructions Through Religion Within Myths and Social Reality Selvy Thiruchandram Social Structures and Women 4. Women in Politics a
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Table of Contents 1. Feminist Politics in the Age of Recognition: A Two Dimensional Approach to Gender Justice Nancy Fraser 2. 'The One God Sent to Stop the Boys from Killing Me': Using Storytelling to Communicate Survey Findings about Liberian Women Living in Displaced-Persons Camps Peggy J. Jennings, Shana Swiss and Rojatu Turay-Kanneh 3. Gender Representation in the Peace Process Dilrukshi Fonseka 4. Institutional Response to Domestic Violence: Towards a Rethinking A. Suneetha 5. The Myth of Post F
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Table of Contents 1. Female Headship Among Muslims in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Case of Changing Household Structures Kanchana N. Ruwanpura 2. A Literature of Resistance: Autobiography and Fiction of Bama, a Tamil Dalit Woman Lakshmi Holmstrom 3. The Disrobing of Draupadi: Women Violence and Human Rights Radhika Coomaraswamy 4. Intersection of Labour Power, Female Sexuality and Notions of Nation State: The Cumulative Oppressive Process, The Case of Sri Lankan Migrant Housemaids Selvy Thiruchandran 5. The S
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