"The recent literature on family and kinship has exhibited a divergence in approaches. On the one hand, the discourse on human rights and gender depicts women as being trapped within oppressive systems. On the other, the traditional academic and policy approaches tend to treat the family as being beyond change and as an institution which enshrines principles of consensus and support. Deviating significantly from both these approaches to family and kinship, ...
Gender Transformation, Power and Resistance Among Women in Sri Lanka: The Fish Don’t Talk about the
