Kumari Jayawardena
(1931-)

Sri Lankan Feminist Scholar
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005

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Sri Lanka

Kumari Jayawardena is one of the most prominet feminist scholars in Sri Lanka and in fact, one of the leading feminist voices in the entire Third World. Ms. Magazine called one of her books, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, one of the "20 most important book of the feminist decades." This book is used in Women's Studies programs all around the world. Kumari Jayawardena's research documents feminist movements in Asia and the Middle East, showing that these movements are not merely offshoots of Western feminist movements but have developed on their own as women struggle for equal rights in their nations. Kumari Jayawardena was nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize project.

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