Abstract:
The objective of this research paper is to analyse the ways in which Sri Lankan soldiers
with disabilities construct and continue their masculine identity in patriarchal post-war
Sri Lankan society. This paper argues that masculine identity construction and
continuation of soldiers with disabilities depend on the ways in which the disabled body
claims the dominant, socially accepted able body's male role, the space for role
performance, and economic stability; hence this needs an active role performance as
the masculine identity is a continuous process of identity-claiming.
