Positioning Women in Malaysia
Subtitle: Class and Gender in an Industrializing State (International Political Economy)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780312217891
Subjects: Employment Of Women; Rural Economic Development; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Development - Economic Development; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Industries - General; Employment; Feminism; Malaysia; Women; Women in rural development
Description: What has the Asian economic miracle offered to women in Malaysia - a second-generation newly industrializing country (NIC)? Representing a journey of some fifteen years, this anthology traces the changing position of Malaysian women as the country is transformed from an agrarian economy to an export-led industrial and information technology society, aspiring to lock itself into the global economy.

It also attempts to link feminist theory and practice articulated in the nascent Malaysian women's movement as it responded to the key challenges confronting Malaysian women.