Table of Contents 1. Reclaiming the Sacred: Buddhist Women in Sri Lanka Elizabeth Harris 2. Shackles of the Past: The Concept of Patriarchy Perpetuating in Education Rocky Ariyaratne 3. Gender in Interaction: Stereotypes and their Impact on the Status of Women…

Table of Contents 1. Trauma in Female Headed Households in Amparai Getsy Shanmugam 2. A Reconstruction of the Trauma and the Post War Syndrome of Women in Trincomalee T. Suveendran 3. Towards a Discourse for a New Manifesto: A Post-Communist…

Table of Contents 1. National Spaces and Collective Identities: Borders, Boundaries, Citizenship and Gender Relations 2. The Logics of Exclusion: Nationalism, Sexism and the Yugoslv War 3. Redefining an Agenda: The Women’s Movement in India 4. Recovering Women’s Travel Narratives: Women’s…

Table of Contents 1. Representation of Gender in Folk Paintings of Bengal Ratnabali Chatterjee 2. Gender Concept: Another Dimension of Understanding Meera Chakravorthy 3. Internal Refugees in Sri Lanka: the Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender Joke Schrivers 4. Women and…

Table of Contents 1. The Uncertain Subjects of Femininity: Ethnographic Approaches to Hindu Practice and Female Agency Mary Hancock 2. Women’s Work and Status Enhancement: A Study of Punjabi’s Immigrant Women in Canada Gurpreet Bal 3. The Construction of Gender in the…

Table of Contents 1. Single Women’s Sexuality and its Cultural Versions Selvy Thiruchandran 2. Coping Mechanism of Single Women Gameela Samarasinghe 3. The Murder in Marriage Attiya Dawood 4. Avenging Women in Indian Cinema Lalith Gopalan 5. Her Dilemma Shiranee…