Masking Terror
Subtitle: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (The Ethnography of Political Violence)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780812236880
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Language; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Sri Lanka; Anthropology - Cultural; Violence in Society; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Ethnic conflict; Ethnic Studies - General; Rural women; Women and war
First sentence: A great number of young men in Sri Lanka have chosen to join the armed forces and were until recently fighting against Tamil separatists (the Tamil Tigers or LTTE) in the north and east of the country.