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100			_aShirley, Bruno M. _949395
245			_aBeyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a58(2), Mar, 2024: p.485-511
520			_aModern historians have repeatedly cast Sri Lanka’s historical female monarchs as ‘queens’, without critically reflecting on the conceptual limits and nuances of that term. Through a close examination of sources from the early second millennium, and their reception by scholars from the colonial period onwards, I demonstrate that Sri Lanka’s female monarchs—particularly Līlāvatī of Poḷonnaruva (r. 1197–1200, 1209, and 1210)—engaged in a more creative and subversive performance of gender than modern ‘queenship’ allows. In particular, I argue, a discourse of kingship’s inherent masculinity, advanced in literary and didactic texts written primarily by male monastics, was too-willingly accepted by colonial-period scholars. Closer attention to the material evidence of Līlāvatī’s reign, however, challenges this discourse and further suggests a politics of gender beyond the binary.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/beyond-the-masculinity-of-kingship-the-making-of-a-modern-queen-in-early-second-millennium-sri-lanka/F92F8EDD9A752F0DB8B4167652FEABAE
650			_aSri Lanka, Kingship, Masculinity, Gender, Colonial-modernity. _949396
773			_aModern Asian Studies
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