Published Work

Abeysekera, S. (1997). Activism for Sexual and ReproductiveRights: Progress and Challenges. Health and Human Rights. 2(3), 39-43.

Abeysekera, S. (1997). Abortion in Sri Lanka in the Context of Women's Human Rights. Reproductive Health Matters. 9, 87-93. Abstract.

Abeysekera, S. (2005). Communities beyond the pale: Sex workers' rights and human rights in Sri Lanka. In G. Misra & R. Chandiramani (Eds.), Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia (277-293). New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Aldrich, R. (2014). Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity. New York: Routledge. Overview.

Basnayake, S. (1987). Knowledge and attitudes about reproductive health among youth in Sri Lanka. Journal of Family Welfare. 33(4), 9-24.

Broadway-Horner, M. (2017). A case study about a gay man who wants to follow his Sri Lankan culture and dedicate his life to a person – a man. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 10(4), 414-446.

Caldwell, J. C., Caldwell, P., Caldwell, B. K. & Pieris, I. (1998). The construction of adolescence in a changing world: Implications for sexuality, reproduction, and marriage. Studies in Family Planning. 29(2), 137-153. Abstract.

De Alwis, M. (1995). Gender, Politics and the ‘Respectable Lady’. In P. Jeganathan & Q. Ismail (Eds), Unmaking the nation: The politics of identity and history in modern Sri Lanka. Colombo: Social Scientists’ Association.

De Alwis, M. (1996). Sexuality in the field of vision: The discursive clothing of the Sigirya frescoes. In K. Jayawardena & M. de Alwis (Eds.), Embodied violence: Communalising female sexuality in South Asia (pp.89-112). London: Zed Boks.

De Alwis, M. (1999). 'Respectability', 'Modernity' and the policing of 'culture' in colonial Ceylon. In A. Burton (Ed.), Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (pp.179-194). London: Routledge.

De Mel, N. (2001). Women and the nation’s narrative: Gender and nationalism in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

De Munck, V. (1998). Lust, love and arranged marriages in Sri Lanka. In V. C. De Munck, Romantic love and sexual behavior: perspectives from the social sciences (pp.285-300). Westport, CT: Praeger Publications.

De Munck, V. (2005). Sakhina: A Study of Female Masculinity in a Sri Lankan Muslim Community. South Asia Research. 25(2), 141-163. Abstract.

De Silva, K. S. H. (2008). Initial assessment of a baby with indeterminate sex. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health. 37(4), 122-124.

Dissanayake, L. (2008). Teenage pregnancies in the Estate sector. Colombo: FPA.

Dissanayake, L. (2010). Fertility rituals and societal stability among Sinhalese Buddhists: An exploratory study. SAARC Culture, (1), 107-118

Ellawala, T. I. (2018). Mismatched lovers: Exploring the compatibility between LGBTQ+ identity theories and gender and sexual plurality in Sri Lanka. Sexuality & Culture, 22(4), 1321-1339. Abstract.

Fernando, M. (2012). Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights. In Sri Lanka: State of Human Rights 2009-2010. (pp.401-419). Colombo: Law and Society Trust.

Fernando, M. (2008 March). Vagrant Voices. Himal Southasian.

Fernando, N., Perera, B., Fernando, N., Gunawardana, M. & Ostbye, T. (2009). Factors associated with sexual behavior among Sri Lankan adolescents. Galle Medical Journal. 14(1), 39-44.

Herath, S. M. K. (n.d.). Report of the study on knowledge, attitudes, practices and behaviours of the workers in Biyagama and Koggala Industrial Promotion Zones in relation to HIV/AIDS. Colombo: FPA.

Hettiarachchy, T. & Schensul, S. L. (June 2001). The risks of pregnancy and the consequences among young unmarried women working in a Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka. Asia-Pacific Population Journal. 16(2), 125-140. Abstract.

Hewage, C. G. (2009). Psychiatry of sexuality – Basics for clinicians. Galle Medical Journal. 14(1), 48-51.

Hewamanne,S. (2003). Performing 'Dis-respectability': New Tastes, Cultural Practices, and Identity Performances by Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone Garment-Factory Workers. Cultural Dynamics, 15(1), 71-101.

Hewamanne, S. (2006). Pornographic voice: critical feminist practices among Sri Lanka's female garment workers. Feminist Studies, 32(1), 125-154. Abstract.

Hewamanne, S. (Summer 2008). “City of whores”: Nationalism, development and global garment workers in Sri Lanka. Social Text 95. 26(2), 35-59. Abstract.

Hewamanne, S. (2010). Stitching identities in a free trade zone: Gender and politics in Sri Lanka. Philadelphia, PA: Penn Press. Overview.

Hewamanne, S. (2012). Negotiating sexual meanings: Global discourses, local practices, and Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ) factory workers. Ethnography, 13(3), 352-374. Abstract.

Hewamanne, S. (2016). Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers:(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society. Routledge. Overview.

Hewamanne, S. (2020). Surveillance by Another Name: The Modern Slavery Act, Global Factory Workers, and Part-Time Sex Work in Sri Lanka, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45(3), 653-677.

Ibrahim, Z. & Kuru-Utumpala, J. (2016) Not just a man in a Sari: Queer Politics in Ranjan Ramanayaka’s ‘Maya.’ LST Review, 28 (341): 52-56.

Jayatilleke, Y.D. (2010). Kotahalu Yaagaya: the rituals pertaining to Sinhalese puberty rites in Sri Lanka. SAARC Culture, (1), 168-187.

Jordal, M., Wijewardena, K., Öhman, A., Essén, B., & Olsson, P. (2014). Negotiating Respectability: Migrant Women Workers’ Perceptions of Relationships and Sexuality in Free Trade Zones in Sri Lanka. Health care for women international, 35(6), 658-676. Abstract.

Jordal, M., Wijewardena, K., Öhman, A., Essén, B., & Olsson, P. (2015). ‘Disrespectful men, disrespectable women’: Men’s perceptions on heterosexual relationships and premarital sex in a Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone-a qualitative interview study. BMC international health and human rights, 15(1), 1-11.

Kalugampitiya, N. M. (2012). Resistance and Reinforcement: Rethinking the Underclass Commercial Sex Worker Discourse in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Humanities, 38(1-2), 25-41.

Kottagoda, J. (2010). Parallels between the Solah Shringara in India and the nanumuraya in Sri Lanka. SAARC Culture, (1), 26-41.

Kuru-Utumpala, J. (2013). Butching it up: An analysis of same-sex female masculinity in Sri Lanka. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 1-13. Abstract.

Lynch, C. (1999).The “good girls” of Sri Lankan modernity: Moral orders of nationalism and capitalism. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 6(1), 55-89. Abstract.

Lynch, C. (2002). The politics of white women's underwear in Sri Lanka's open economy. Social Politics. 9 (1), 87-125. Abstract.

Lynch, C. (2004). Economic Liberalization, nationalism, and women’s morality in Sri Lanka. In D. Winslow & M.D. Woost (Eds.), Economy, culture, and civil war in Sri Lanka (pp.168-191). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Miller, J. (2002). Violence and coercion in Sri Lanka's commercial sex industry: Intersections of gender, sexuality, culture, and the law. Violence Against Women. 8(9), 1044-1073. Abstract.

Miller, J. (2011). Beach Boys or Sexually Exploited Children? Competing Narratives of Sex Tourism and their Impact on Young Men in Sri Lanka’s Sex Industry. Crime, Law and Social Change, 56 (5), 485-508.

Miller, J. & Carbone-Lopez, K. (2013). Gendered Carceral Regimes in Sri Lanka: Colonial Laws, Postcolonial Practices, and the Social Control of Sex Workers. Signs. 39(1), 79-103. Abstract.

Miller, J. & Nichols, A. (2012). Identity, Sexuality, and Commercial Sex among Sri Lankan Nachchi. Sexualities, 15 (5-6), 554-569. Abstract.

Näre, L. (2010). Sri Lankan men working as cleaners and carers: Negotiating masculinity in Naples. Men and Masculinities, 13(1), 65-86.

Nastasi, B. K., Schensul, J. J., De Silva, M. W. A., Varjas, K., Silva, K. T., Ratnayake, P.& Schensul, S. L. (1999). Community-based sexual risk prevention program for Sri Lankan youth: Influencing sexual decision making. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 18(1), 139–155. Abstract.

Nichols, A. (2010). Dance Ponnaya, Dance! Police abuses against transgender sex workers in Sri Lanka. Feminist Criminology. 5(2). 195-222.

Palliyaguru, C. (2010). The country situation in using ethics and rituals from the ancient stages: Beliefs, observances and practices in Sri Lanka. SAARC Culture, (1), 95-106

Perera, B. (2011).Sexual health in young people: Issues to ponder. Galle Medical Journal. 16(1), 33-38. Abstract.

Perera, B. & Reece, M. (2006). Sexual behavior of young adults in Sri Lanka: Implications for HIV prevention. AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV. 18(5), 497-500. Abstract.

Queering the Law (December 2016). LST Review, 27: 341.

Rajapaksa-Hewageegana, N., Piercy, H., Salway, S. & Samarage, S. (2014). Sexual and reproductive knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in a school going population of Sri Lankan adolescents. Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, 6 (1), 3-8.

Ratnapala, N. (1995). Behaviour modification among commercial sex workers of Sri Lanka: in the context of HIV/AIDS infection. Nugegoda: author published.

Ratnapala, N. (1999). Male sex work in Sri Lanka. In P. Aggleton (Ed.), Men who sell sex: International perspectives on male prostitution and HIV/AIDS (pp. 213-222). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Ratnapala, N. (1999). Sex workers of Sri Lanka. Colombo: Sarvodaya Vishwa Lekha Publishers.

Silva, K. T. & Schensul, S. (2003). Differences in male and female attitudes towards premarital sex in a sample of Sri Lankan youth. In Bott, S., Jejeebhoy, S., Shah, I. & Puri, C. (Eds.), Towards adulthood: exploring the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in South Asia (pp.86-88). Geneva: WHO.

Silva, K. T., Sivayoganathan, C. & Schensul, S. (1998). Love, sex and peer activity in a sample of youth in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences. 21(1&2), 59-82.

Silva, M. de (December 2000). Nationalism and sexuality: The intersection of gender and power in South Asia. Nivedini - Journal of Gender Studies. 8(1), 61-87. Preview.

Simpson, B. (2004). Gays, paternity ad polyandry: Making sense of new family forms in contemporary Sri Lanka. In R. Chopra, C. Osella and F. Osella (Eds.), South Asian masculinities: Context of change, sites of continuity. (pp.160-174). New Delhi: Women Unlimited & Kali for Women.

Smith, M. (2010). Erasure of sexuality and desire: State morality and Sri Lankan migrants in Beirut, Lebanon. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 11(3-4), 378-393. Abstract.

Siriwardena, D. (2017). Querying the Queer: A Study of the Queer Identity in the Sri Lankan English Novel. Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 4:1. Abstract.

Tambiah, Y. (1998). Realising Women’s Sexual Rights: Challenges in South Asia. Nordic Journal of International Law, Special Issue, Sexual and Reproductive Rights in International Law. 67 (1), 97-105. Abstract.

Tambiah, Y. (2003, May). Man-made Laws and Feminine Feelings: A ‘Lesbian’ Encounter with the Law in Sri Lanka, Lines, 2(1). Abstract.

Tambiah, Y. (2004, May). Sexuality and Women's Rights in Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka. Reproductive Health Matters. 12(23), 78-87. Abstract.

Tambiah, Y. (2004). (Im)moral Citizens: Sexuality and the Penal Code in Sri Lanka. In A. J. Canagaratna (Ed.), Neelan Tiruchelvam Commemoration Conference Papers (pp. 107-141). Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies.

Tambiah, Y. (2005). Turncoat Bodies: Sexuality and Sex Work under Militarization in Sri Lanka. Gender & Society. 19: 243-261. Abstract.

Wijewardene, S. (2007). “But no one has explained to me who I am now…”:“Trans” Self-Perceptions in Sri Lanka. In Women’s sexualities and masculinities in a globalizing Asia (pp. 101-116). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Wijewardene, S. (2021). Jaded jezebels, chainsmokers, gypsies, and ninjas: Criminality and the refurbishment of lesbian identity and gender non-conforming identities in Sri Lankan newspaper narratives. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1-18. Abstract.

Women's Support Group, (2014). "Not gonna take it lying down": Experiences of violence and discrimination as told by LBT persons in Sri Lanka. Colombo: Women's Support Group.