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Labour Feminism & Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Selected Essays by Kumari Jayawardena Biography From the widespread belief inLabour, Feminism & Ethnicity in Sri Lanka presents selected essays by leading academic and feminist figure Kumari Jayawardena. The book unites diverse topics as 'Striking Printers' and 'Pioneer Rebels among the Colombo working class'; remembers activist like Hedi Keunemann and Vivinne Goonewardena; explores the effects of Sinhala Buddhism on 'the daughters of the soil', talks of the 'White Woman's other burden'; the problem of condoning Violence