TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ann, Adele
TI  - Unbroken chains: exploations into the Jaffna dowry system
U1  - 331.4 
PY  - 1994///,
CY  - Jaffna
PB  - Malathi press
N1  - " UNBROKEN CHAINS " is an attempt to explore one of the most complex social issues confronting the  Tamil people of Jaffna - the  dowry system. The dowry system as  practiced in the Jaffna social formation is a deeply institutionalized, intractable customary practice. it has its own peculiarities and unique history: it is bound up with property relations and socio - cultural practices: it is a major source of the social oppression of women. we systematically explore various socio - cultural issues related to the practice and conclude with an exposition of possible ways and means of eradicating this mode of social oppression of women
ER  -