Sri Lankan Soldiers with Disabilities and their Masculine Identity

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.