Women's/gender studies in the Asian region / Bernadette P. Resurreccion -- Converging rights, women, gender, and development in multiethnic Malaysia / Cecilia Ng and Tan Beng Hui -- The nature and impact of domestic violence, a study of survivors of wife abuse in Malaysia / Noraida Endut and Intan Hashimah Mohd. Hashim -- Doing gender in literature / Shakila Abdul Manan -- Beyond numbers, women and politics in Malaysia / Tan Pek Leng -- Gender differentials and the Malaysian labour market / Jacqueline Fernandez -- Capacity building experiences of poor women participants of the asnaf zakat programme in Penang / Nor Hafizah Selamat and Salfarina Abd. Gapor -- Women, law, and justice, the case of domestic violence in Malaysia / Noraida Endut -- Shifting boundaries, Islam, jurisprudence, and gender in Malaysia / Zarizana Abdul Aziz.