Nivedini-A Sri Lankan Feminist Journal articles

Recent articles from Nivedini-A Sri Lankan Feminist Journal

Blissfully Eva - "Kindling fancies into poesy". (Books Reviews).
June 1, 2001... "Blissfully." By Eva Ranaweexa - 32 poems, Hitech Prints, 2000 It was John Clare who wrote of the poet "Kindling fancies into poesy" in his beautiful poem. "To the rural Muse." Thank God Eva Ranaweera did not have to wait 150 years to have...

Thiruchandran, Selvy (ed.) 1994, Images. Karunaratne & Sons Ltd., Colombo. (Book Reviews).(Column)
June 1, 2001... "I think we are beginning to realise how much terror lies at the heart of the paradise of communication" (1) Images is the result of a multi-lingual media-monitoring committee that was set up by the Women's Education and Research Centre to...

Dreams unlimited: The make-believe world of advertisements.
June 1, 2001... Among the most important shifts that have occurred in the electronic media since the days when the state owned Doordarshan was the sole player in the field is the centrality of advertisements, i. e., the presence of the market in dominating the...

Fairy Tales and the concept of femininity.
June 1, 2001... (*) Neshantha Harischandra Once upon a time, a mother sat by her little daughter's bedside, relating the story of "The Sleeping Beauty"... A hundred years later, a mother sat by her little daughter's bedside, relating the story of...

The family and the household of the females in war time Eastern Sri Lanka -- Are they disintegrating or being restructured?
June 1, 2001... Wars all over the world have left scars, both in the minds and bodies, of people. Generally research on postwar situation tends to overlook gender related dimensions. This research paper attempts to identify some of the gender-related problems....

Motherhood as a space of protest: Women's political participation in contemporary Sri Lanka.
June 1, 2001... This paper was originally published in Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and the Politicization of Religion in South Asia eds. Amrita Basu & Patricia Jeffrey. London/New York: Routledge, 1997. The research on which this paper is based...

Nivedini in a New Frame. (A Note from the Editor).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 1, 2001... We have been publishing Nivedini from 1993 and have brought out 14 issues (Including 2 double issues). Nivedini was the outlet and the communicative arm of Women's Education and Research Centre. Nivedini has always remained within a specific...