Kumari Jayawardena (Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism ...
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Kumari Jayawardena is a leading feminist scholar, active in the women's and civil rights movements in Sri Lanka.
Kumari Jayawardena
Sri Lankan activist
Kumari Jayawardena is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots... Wikipedia
Born: 1931 (age 94 years), Sri Lanka
Parents: A. P. de Zoysa
Education: London School of Economics and Political Science and Ladies' College
Notable work: Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Books
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
1986
Nobodies to somebodies
2000
The white woman's other burden
1995
Embodied Violence: Communalising Female Sexuality in South Asia
1996
Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and Protest
2015
The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon
1972
Kumari Jayawardena (born 1931) is a leading feminist activist and academic in Sri Lanka. She has taught at the University of Colombo and the International ...
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This book reconstructs the little-known history of those political struggles women launched in Asia and the Middle East from the late 19th century onwards.
Aug 31, 2023 · Kumari Jayawardena (b. 1931) is a Sri Lankan historian, feminist scholar, and author whose work has explored the intersections of gender, class, ...
Kumari Jayawardena is a leading feminist scholar, active in the women's and men's civil rights movements in Sri Lanka.
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In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World.
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In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule.
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