# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kumari-jayawardena
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:10.287Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kumari-jayawardena"
name: "Kumari Jayawardena"
slug: "kumari-jayawardena"
description: "Kumari Jayawardena is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism. She has taught at the University of Colombo and the International Institute of Social Studies."
tagline: "Sri Lankan academic and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kumari_Jayawardena_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.614004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Kumari Jayawardena"
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    title: "Kumari Jayawardena"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump