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Katherine Mayo
Katherine Mayo (January 27, 1867 – October 9, 1940) was an American white nationalist, researcher and historian. Mayo entered public life as a political writer advocating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Nativism, opposition to non-white and Catholic immigration to the United States, and opposition to recently emancipated African slave laborers. She became known for denouncing the Philippine Declaration of Independence on racialist and religious grounds, then went on to publish and promote her best-known work, "Mother India" (1927)
which analyzes the actions of white women who challenged the gender roles set by the British occupation of South Asia. Jayawardena specifically looks at the work of Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, Mirra Richard, and the countless others who fought for equality for all women during colonialism. Also, Jayawardena has had her books and articles translated into Sinhala and Tamil.
Works Books.
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (1986)
From Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka