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. The Use of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women to Promote Equal Rights in the Family Norma Monika Ford 6. Female Revolt, Saintly and Veiled Selvy Thiruchandran 7. Listening to Young American Poets, Prairie Lights Jean Arasanayagam 8. Dilemmas of Development for Women Kamala Bhasin 9. Tourism and Child Prostitution Maureen Seneviratne 10. A Woman’s Lament: An Inversion of Vocabulary Sukrivi