Table of Contents

1. Female Headship Among Muslims in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Case of Changing Household Structures
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

2. A Literature of Resistance: Autobiography and Fiction of Bama, a Tamil Dalit Woman
Lakshmi Holmstrom

3. The Disrobing of Draupadi: Women Violence and Human Rights
Radhika Coomaraswamy

4. Intersection of Labour Power, Female Sexuality and Notions of Nation State: The Cumulative Oppressive Process, The Case of Sri Lankan Migrant Housemaids
Selvy Thiruchandran

5. The Socialist Feminist Project
Nancy Holmstorm

6. From Murder to Violence Against Women: The Beginnings of a Feminist Debate in Sri Lanka
Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham

Book Reviews

7. Feminist Under Fire Exchanges Across War Zone edited by Wenona Giles, Malathi de Alwis, Edith Klein, Neluka Silva
Reviewed by Ayse Gul Altinay

8. Yasmin Gooneratne: Celebrating Sri Lankan Women's English Writing: 1948-2000 Vol 2
Reviewed by Heike H. Harting, Universire de Montreal