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…

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…

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…

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…