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. She tells the stories of many well-known wome
At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. InThe
This book is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women‘s bodies. It explores the relationship between ideals of motherhood,
For twenty-five years, Kumari Jayawardena’s text has been an essential primer on the history of women’s movements in Asia and the middle East—from Egypt, Turkey and Iran, to India, Sri Lanka, China, I
This book is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women‘s bodies. It explores the relationship between ideals of motherhood,
