Kumari Jayawardena

Author of Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

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About the Author

Kumari Jayawardena is a leading feminist scholar, active in the women's and men's civil rights movements in Sri Lanka. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Sciences Po in Paris, she taught in the Political Science and Women's Studies programs at Colombo University.

Works by Kumari Jayawardena

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Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (1986) 140 copies

The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule (1995) 16 copies

Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka (2000) 11 copies

Embodied Violence: Communalising Female Sexuality in South Asia (1996) 8 copies

Erasure of the Euro-Asian: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia (2007) 5 copies

Caste in Sri Lanka and Intervention by the Left: The Story of Kamala Ratnaveli (2017) 2 copies

A LEGACY TO REMEMBER: SRI LANKAN'S COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY (2010) 2 copies

Class, Patriarchy, and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and Protest (2015) 2 copies

The Search for Justice: The Sri Lanka Papers (2017) 2 copies

Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka: The Emergence of Sinhala Buddhist Consciousness 1883-1983 2 copies

Perpetual Ferment: Popular Revolts in Sri Lanka in the 18th and 19th Centuries (2010) 2 copies

Labour, Feminism, and Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Selected Essays (2017) 2 copies

ශ්‍රී ලංකවේ කුලය හා වමේ මැදිහත්වීම කමලා… 1 copy

A.P. de Zoysa: Combative Social Democrat and Buddhist Reformer in 20th Century Sri Lanka (2012) 1 copy

N.U. Jayawardena: The First Five Decades (2008) 1 copy

The Origins of the Left Movement in Sri Lanka 1 copy

සදාතන අරගල 1 copy

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