Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka

by Alexandra Argenti-Pillen and Alex Argenti-Pillen

Book Overview

In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition--year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes still fill people with horror. Alex Argenti-Pillen describes the social fabric of a rural community that has become a breeding ground and reservoir of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812236882
• ISBN13: 9780812236880
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"