Description
This book is a collection of twelve essays written by local women academicians/researchers who have come together from various disciplines to engage themselves in discourses about challenges confronting the Malaysian women.
The writers discuss various issues confronting Malaysian women and analyse the impact of the government development agenda on women's lives.
The underlying theme of this book is the issues faced by women in Malaysia, how they have adapted to the interplaying forces of the State, Islam, tradition and modernity with negotiation rather than resistance. How they have broken through the boundaries and in spite of built-in social inequalities, have maintained their visibility in the areas of anthropology. politics, science, law, business, linguistics and communication and the media.
