Selected essays by leading academic and feminist figure Kumari Jayawardena. The book unites diverse topics as Striking Printers, and Pioneer Rebels Among the Colombo Working Class; remembers activists like Heidi Keunemann and Vivienne Goonewardena; explores the effects of Sinhala Buddhism on The Daughters of the Soil, and talks of the White Woman’s Other Burden etc. Essential reading for anyone interested in the structuring of Sri Lanka.