Kumari Jayawardena is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic.
12 Facts About Kumari Jayawardena
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Kumari Jayawardena's 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.
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Kumari Jayawardena has taught at the University of Colombo and the International Institute of Social Studies.
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Kumari Jayawardena has published other books including The White Woman's Other Burden and written many articles.
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Kumari Jayawardena founded the Social Scientists' Association in the 1970s and plays an active role in Sri Lankan civil rights movements.
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Kumari Jayawardena was born in Colombo in 1931, to a Sinhala father and a British mother, Eleanor Hutton.
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Kumari Jayawardena studied at the Ladies' College in Colombo and took a BA in Economics at the London School of Economics between 1952 and 1955.
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Kumari Jayawardena was awarded the Certificat d'Etudes Politiques from the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris in 1956.
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From 1969 until 1985, Kumari Jayawardena taught political science at the University of Colombo.
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Kumari Jayawardena taught a course on women and development as a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.
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Kumari Jayawardena plays an active role in women's research organizations and civil rights movements in Sri Lanka.
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Kumari Jayawardena founded the Social Scientists' Association in the 1970s and was still involved with it at the age of 85.