WERC
This research is part of a tri-nation study conducted in Ghana, Canada and Sri Lanka to span Africa and Asia in a single, comparative and collaborative analysis of women’s political agency. The study involved investigation of communal endeavours and local political participation on the one hand, and national events involving women’s agency in Ghana and Sri Lanka on the other. The research draws on a synthesis of what we term 'feminist political economy'; theories of the post colonial state, class formation and post
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Women blue collar workers in Ratmalana and the Free Trade Zone areas are a vulnerable group to stress and its manifestations. The objectives were to provide insight in to the potential stressful conditions and their psychological manifestations experienced by the women workers, and to make suggestions on the course of action to help minimise and cope with their difficulties. Using a sample of 1000 female workers, the study examined the psychological impact of employment and living circumstances of the women workers in R
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The study conducted in Uva, Sothern and Eastern province of Sri Lanka was an attempt to place in context the position of women whose husbands or partners, and in some cases other male kin, have been killed or disappeared. In doing so it outlined the political, economic and social consequences of violence and terror as they have impacted upon these families. It also analyses, from a psychological perspective, the coping mechanisms and strategies adopted by these women and members of their families to deal with trauma as
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This research ties into contemporary debates about the relevance of post-Enlightenment universalism in a context where women are asserting their differences. It emerged from the research that women are subject to the gender regime in their culture in ways which transcend the multiplicity of their experience. Forms of gender suffering which existed in different guises through a long historical run in Tamil Nadu, exacerbated by the historically continuing encroachment of Brahmanic values, were brought out through the stud
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