Table of Contents 1. Female Headed Households in Situations of Armed Conflict Sepali Kottegoda 2. Cat’s Eye 3. Universality vs Cultural Relativism in Human Rights: The Debate and a Response Jayadeva Uyangoda 4. Deconstruction is Revolution if Revolution is Body…

Table of Contents 1. Women’s Sexuality in Nationalist Struggles Darini Rajasingham 2. Lessons for the Women’s Movement from the Literacy Campaigns 3. The Mother of Rahula Maureen Seneviratne 4. Employment of Wife and Domestic Power Strucutre S. C. Sidramshettar 5.…

Table of Contents 1. A Plea for Peace Editorial 2. Dilemmas of a Transformative Research Ideal Refugees and Resettlement in Sri Lanka Joke Schrijvers 3. Women in Contemporary Sri Lankan Tamil Fiction: A Study of Three Novels Sitra Maunaguru 4. The…

Table of Contents 1. The Articulation of Gender in Cinematic Address: Sinhala Cinema in 1992 Malathi de Alwis 2. Violence against Women: Nature and Extent Bela Nabi 3. Patriarchy in a Language Eva Ranaweera 4. Socio- Cultural Constraints and their Gendered…

Table of Contents 1. Liberation is not Six Yards of Cloth Janaki Nair 2. Sex Trafficking in Asian Women 3. A Fruit Tree and Carl Muller’s Construction of Women: Subversion or Reinforcement? Ruvani Ranasinghe 4. A Statement Issued at a…

Table of Contents 1. WERC’s Ideologies and Activities 2. Consciousness Raising in the 1990’s Kumari Jayawardane 3. The Voice of the Oppressed Woman: Three Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurtson and Toni Morrison Neluka Silva 4. Ignorance Selvy Thiruchandran 5.…