Kumari Jayawardena is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism. She has taught at the University of Colombo and the International Institute of Social Studies.

The White Woman's Other Burden
1995
ISBN 9780415911054
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
2016
ISBN 9781784784294
Persistent patriarchy
2014
ISBN 9789550762293
Embodied Violence
1996
ISBN 9781856494489Nobodies to Somebodies
2001
ISBN 9788187496175
Casting Pearls
2001
ISBN 9789559102380
A.P. de Zoysa
2012
ISBN 9789555444408
N. U. Jayawardena, the First Five Decades
2008
ISBN 9789551772109Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka
2003
ISBN 9789558203019State's Response to Gender Equity and Women's Demands for Reform in Legal, Institutional and Public Spheres
2014
ISBN 9789550762286Caste in Sri Lanka and Intervention by the Left
2017
ISBN 9789553807007
Perpetual Ferment
2010
ISBN 9789551772574
Labour, Feminism & Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
2017
ISBN 9789557743035