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"Dowry in Batticaloa: Historical transformation of a matrilineal property system"
"Dreaming of Dowry: post tsunami housing strategies in Eastern Sri Lanka"
"Household in Akkaraipattu: Dowry and Domestic Organization among Matrilineal Tamils and Moors of Sri Lanka"
This paper describes and analyses the pattern of descent, marriage and household organization shared by Muslims and Tamils in the town of Akkaraipattu in the matrilineal belt of Sri Lanka, the Tamil-speaking, eastern coastal region.
A Gender Analysis of Tsunami Impact: Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction in some Districts in Sri Lanka
This report presents the findings of a study supported by UNIFEM and coordinated by the Center for Women’s Research in the period March – September 2005. The research for the study was done by seven women’s organizations who linked with their partner community based organizations in six districts...
A socio-legal study on the Head of the Household concept in Sri Lanka

The study sought to understand the origins and the use of the Head of the Household concept in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the tsunami as it was used to disentitle women of post tsunami state allocated lands.

A Transformation of customary marriage and Inheritance Laws of the Sinhalese under British Colonialism
All Her Worldly Goods: Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights
An Annotated Bibliography on Violence Against Women in South Asia: Actions and Responses

This bibliography attempts to cover all areas of violence against women in the family, the community and by the state. The compilation also includes a full array of resource material from books to monographs and newspaper articles, both published and unpublished, and is broken down by country....

Caste and Matriclan Structures in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Preliminary Report on Fieldwork in Akkaraipattu
Feminist Engagements with Violence: Contingent Moments from Sri Lanka

The four chapters in this book attempt to document and analyse contingent moments in the feminist movement in Sri Lanka as feminists have attempted to address issues of gendered violence. The introduction maps and brings together a framework through which issues of violence against women in Sri...