Womanly “Acts”
“Attaining Age” in Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maryse Jayasuriya (0009-0005-3297-2247, The University of Texas at El Paso, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 121-131 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2013.11932944 |
| OpenAlex | W2773263773 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The puberty ceremony for young girls is an important rite of passage in Sri Lanka, as it is in many other cultures. The ceremony is commonly referred to as “attaining age.” Many Sri Lankan Anglophone writers have focused on this celebration of menarche and its emphasis on gender performance. Using anthropological studies of the cultural resonances of menstruation this essay considers the ways in which Punyakante Wijenaike, Chandani Lokugé, Vivimarie Vanderpoorten, Sita Kulatunga, and Jean Arasanayagam depict the ceremony in their respective works, tracing in particular how these representations demonstrate ambivalence and anxiety about the social performance of these gendered rituals
Ambivalence · Ceremony · Menarche · Menstruation · Psychoanalysis · Rite · Rite of passage · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Theology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |