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A study of ethnic conflict's impact on women's traditionally gender-bound subjugation uses specific examples from the Sinhala & Tamil districts of Sri Lanka. Ceylonese patriarchal underpinnings, recent changes in women's duties, & the political coopting of women's activism are cited. A review of Sri Lankan colonization, ethnic & religious composition, independence, & armed conflict is given, along with current ethnic & political problems. A review of attempts at conflict resolution includes the activities of the Women's Action Committee, Women for Peace, the Mothers & Daughters of Sri Lanka, & the Southern Mothers' Front. The impact of the two last organizations on protests, elections, & peace movements is elucidated. Female participation in the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), along with the LTTE's exploitation & subsequent abandonment of the Mothers' Front is described. A recapping of post-1994 tensions includes information on populist involvement, women's potential impact on conflict resolution, & female survivors' reactions to the need for assistance, organization, & restructuring. M. C. Leary

The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women shows how political, economic, social and ideological processes intersect to shape conflict related gender-based violence against women. Through feminist interrogations of the politics of economies, struggles for political power and the gender order, this collection reveals how sexual orders and regimes are linked to spaces of production. Crucially it argues that these spaces are themselves firmly anchored in overlapping patriarchies which are sustained and reproduced during and after war through violence that is physical as well as structural. Through an analysis of legal regimes and structures of social arrangements, this book frames militarization as a political economic dynamic, developing a radical critique of liberal peace building and peace making that does not challenge patriarchy, or modes of production and accumulation