A critical engagement with nationalism and its linkages with gender, class and ethnicity has animated much of Jayawardena's work. Her pioneering book on Third World feminism and nationalism showed that feminism was not a western import and that its existence and growth in emerging post-colonial nation states was distinctly related to their modernising impulses. Importantly she paved the way for an understanding of Third World feminisms as varied and rooted in regional, historical and cultural specificities.
ISBN: 8188965375
Author: Mel, Neloufer De & Thiruchandran, Selvy
Published by: Kali For Women
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ISBN: 8188965375
Author: Mel, Neloufer De & Thiruchandran, Selvy
Published by: Kali For Women
For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com
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