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Kumari Jayawardena
Kumari Jayawardena (born 1931) is a leading feminist activist and academic in Sri Lanka. She has taught at the University of Colombo and the International Institute of Social Studies. Her seminal work Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (first published 1986), has become a classic work on non-Western women’s movements. She founded the Social Scientists’ Association in the 1970s and plays an active role in Sri Lankan civil rights movements.
