Women and Politics in Sri Lanka
Author | : Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
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Author | : Morina Perera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Kazuki Iwanaga |
Publisher | : NIAS Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8776940160 |
The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.
Author | : Devin K. Joshi |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2022-08-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000626814 |
Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple descriptive representation, however, is whether outcomes for women are improving. Rather than focusing on numerical representation, the chapters in this book focus on the substantive representation of women. In other words, what do women and men parliamentarians do to advance women’s well-being and gender equality? Using semi-structured interviews, the author of each chapter examines these efforts in the context of a specific Asian country. The case studies include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste. The book is an essential resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and the politics of gender.
Author | : Chulani Kodikara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political participation |
ISBN | : 9789550249008 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sri Lanka |
ISBN | : |
Study constitutes part of a program to improve the quality of life of women in Sri Lanka.
Author | : Selvy Thiruchandran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
On women participation in postcolonial Sri Lankan politics post 1978; a study.
Author | : Sandya Hewamanne |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812202252 |
Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang." Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality. By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.
Author | : Swarna Jayaweera |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2002-03-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
During the fifty years since independence, Sri Lanka has made considerable strides in various spheres. Adopting a gender perspective, this volume discusses the impact on women of the social, political and economic developments which have occurred during these eventful decades. Bringing together activists and scholars, this important book thoughtfully reviews the different paths Sri Lankan women have taken to achieve greater political and economic empowerment and control over their lives.