The study conducted in Uva, Sothern and Eastern province of Sri Lanka was an attempt to place in context the position of women whose husbands or partners, and in some cases other male kin, have been killed or disappeared. In…

This research ties into contemporary debates about the relevance of post-Enlightenment universalism in a context where women are asserting their differences. It emerged from the research that women are subject to the gender regime in their culture in ways which…