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…

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.

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…

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…

Diasporic women writers’ contributions represent a break through and have opened significant new perspectives in the history of Tamil literary tradition. Identity consciousness and the reality of detachment interact at various levels in their writings. While the writings have essentially…

This publication is based on papers presented at a conference on Gender organized by WERC. The researchers have identified topics representing culture, and political formations of both the colonial and post colonial South Asia.