Feminism, Conflict and Disasters in Post-tsunami Sri LankaFootnote¹

1 The author would like to thank Sue Wadley, the editors and two anonymous referees for their comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript, as well as Rebecca Mark for her invitation to present an earlier version of this work at the ‘Educating Women for a World in Crisis’, Conference at the Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans in February 2007.

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