Studies programs around the world. Thirty years after its original publication, it was reissued by Verso Books. 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. 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. Selected works Books The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon (1972) North Carolina: Duke University Press Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (1986) London: Zed Books The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule (1995) New York: Routledge (Co-edited with Malathi de Alwis) Embodied Violence Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia (1996) London: Zed Books From Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka (1998) Colombo: Social Scientists' Association Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka: The Emergence of Sinhala-Buddhist Consciousness 1883-1983 (2003) Sri Lanka: Sanjiva Books Erasure of the Euro-Asian (2007) Colombo: Social Scientists' Association Articles "Annie Besant's Many Lives" in Frontline (17 October 1997). "The Women's Movement in Sri Lanka 1985-1995, A Glance Back Over Ten Years" (CENWOR, 1995). "Sinhala Buddhism and the 'Daughters of the Soil'" in Pravda 1 (May 1992). "Some Thoughts on the Left and the 'Woman Question' in South Asia" in Promissory Notes (eds) S. Kruks, R. Rapp and M. Young. (Monthly Review Press, 1989). "The National Question and the Left Movement in Sri Lanka" in Facets of Ethnicity (eds) C. Abeysekera and N. Gunasinghe. (SSA, 1987). "Feminist Consciousness in the Decade 1975-85" in UN Decades for Women—Progress and Achievements of Women in Sri Lanka (CENWOR, 1986). "Bhikkus in Revolt" in Lanka Guardian ( May–July 1979). "The Origins of the Left Movement in Sri Lanka" in Modern Ceylon Studies 2 (1971): 195-221. "Economic and Political Factors in the 1915 Riots" in Journal of Asian Studies 29 (Feb 1970). "Pioneer Rebels among the Colombo Working Class" in Young Socialist (Nov 1968). See also Feminism Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World Sunila Abeysekera Malathi de Alwis References External links Feminist studies scholars 1931 births