Emancipation, Women and the State: A Competing Agenda in the 20th Century Malaysia
The structural contradictions of being Muslim and members of a nation-state for women in modern-day Muslim nation-states created after the Second World War have never been fully resolved. The problem is even more compounded for Malaysia, which started life as a collection of sultanates, graduating t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2001, Volume: 9, Issue: 2 |
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| Summary: | The structural contradictions of being Muslim and members of a nation-state for women in modern-day Muslim nation-states created after the Second World War have never been fully resolved. The problem is even more compounded for Malaysia, which started life as a collection of sultanates, graduating to a multi-racial nation-state. In the beginning, Malay women saw emancipation as involvement in party politics. But much of the development envisaged for women was hampered by illiteracy. Since 1970, with the new found petro-ringgit, however, the situation changed. Women attained emancipation in mobility, political and economic spheres. Yet, an appropriate space for motherhood and wifehood has not been carved out in the industrial state. |
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| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Intellectual discourse
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