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Kumari Jayawardena (Agampodi Kumari Jayawardena) was born on 1931 in Colombo, British Ceylon, is a Sri Lankan academic and activist (born 1931). Discover Kumari Jayawardena's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

Popular As Agampodi Kumari Jayawardena
Occupation Academic, activist
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 1931, 1931
Birthday 1931
Birthplace Colombo, British Ceylon
Nationality Sri Lanka

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Parents A. P. de Zoysa (father)Eleanor Hutton (mother)
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1931

Kumari Jayawardena (කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic.

Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism.

She has taught at the University of Colombo and the International Institute of Social Studies.

Jayawardena was born in Colombo in 1931, to a Sinhala father and a British mother, Eleanor Hutton.

His father Agampodi Torontal Paulus de Zoysa popularly known as A. P. de Zoysa was a prominent social reformer and academic of Sri Lanka.

1952

She studied at the Ladies' College in Colombo and took a BA in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) between 1952 and 1955.

1956

She was awarded the Certificat d'Etudes Politiques from the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (part of Sciences Po) in 1956.

1958

Having qualified as a barrister in 1958, she received a PhD from LSE in 1964 for her thesis on industrial relations.

1969

From 1969 until 1985, Jayawardena taught political science at the University of Colombo.

She also taught a course on women and development as a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.

1970

She founded the Social Scientists' Association in the 1970s and plays an active role in Sri Lankan civil rights movements.

She founded the Social Scientists' Association in the 1970s and was still involved with it at the age of 85.

It is a group of concerned scholars working on ethnic, gender and caste.

1980

In the 1980s Jayawardena published Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, which has become a classic work on non-Western women's movements.

She has published other books including The White Woman's Other Burden and written many articles.

In the 1980s, as she travelled between Brussels (where she lived) and The Hague (where she taught) Jayawardena wrote what would become Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World.

It is a guide to women's movements in China, Egypt, Iran, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Vietnam.

Jayawardena wanted to address the "gap about our part of the world" and felt that in order to "discuss the knowledge and status of women today, it is important to know what they have gained and how."

1986

The book was selected for the Feminist Fortnight award in the United Kingdom in 1986.

1992

Ms. Magazine called it one of the twenty most important books of the feminist decades in 1992.

This book is now regarded as a classic introduction to feminist movements and is widely used in Women's Studies programs around the world.

Thirty years after its original publication, it was reissued by Verso Books.

1995

The White Woman's Other Burden, published in 1995, analyzes the actions of white women who challenged the gender roles set by the British occupation of South Asia.

Jayawardena specifically looks at the work of Annie Besant, Helena Blavatsky, Katherine Mayo, Mirra Richard and Madeleine Slade.

Jayawardena plays an active role in women's research organizations and civil rights movements in Sri Lanka.