page_title: Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
section_title: About the Author
hierarchical_section_title: Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World / About the Author
caption_attribution_description: English: Kumari Jayawardena at home in Colombo in 2018
context_page_description: Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World is a 1986 publication by Sri Lankan author Kumari Jayawardena. Kumari’s book has been described as a feminist classic and widely used in gender and women’s studies to date as a primer of Third-World Feminism.
  The book follows case studies about women at the front line of feminist, socialist and political movements across twelve countries in the East that share a history of direct assault and hostility by imperialist regimes interested in subjugating their territory and indirect exploitation in instilling the enslavement schemes of these regimes. These case studies are set against a background of growing nationalism- liberation struggles of the Eastern world to free themselves of their colonizers, which created a common struggle for emancipation between feminist and nationalist movements.
context_section_description: Kumari Jayawardena was born in 1931. She credits her family as the source of her early interest in Leftists politics; her father Dr A. P. de Zoysa was a member of the State Council and her mother Eleanor Hutton came from a family of strong feminists, socialists and anti-colonist. Her grandmother, Sarah Bewick, was a suffragette. She was senior Fellow of the Institute of Graduate Studies at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2006.
  Kumari defines her life and work as based on the ideals of Marxism, feminism and secularism. Her published works include The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflicts in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World; The white Woman’s other Burden; Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka and The Erasure of the Euro-Asian.
caption: Kumari Jayawardena at home in Colombo in 2018
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