ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some developments in gender activism in contemporary Sri Lanka. It provides an overview of the field and discusses the important contributions that have been made to expanding the understandings of concepts like intersectionality, human rights, feminism and the very idea of the political. In particular, it focuses on how gender activists in Sri Lanka have approached the role of law and the State in facilitating social change, how they have explored questions of emotion, aesthetics and imaginaries and how they have sought to address issues of power, hierarchy and subalternity.
