Studies on Women in Malaysia 1990-2004 An Overview and Bibliography

Studies on Women in Malaysia 1990-2004 An Overview and Bibliography. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-806-0 (paper back). 366pp. RM30.00. Zainab Awang Ngah.

This Bibliography updated previous bibliographies compiled on women in Malaysia and scopes the literature to those published between 1990 and 2004. The bibliography lists 3346 publications, which indicate a sharp increase in studies and research activities on women averaging about 258 per year. This bibliography includes a short essay as an introduction entitled, “Women studies in Malaysia: a bibliometric analysis”, which traces the growth of publications between 1990 and 2004 and make comparisons with those published in the pre-1990s. Types of publications produced, the active authors and the authorship pattern are also described. The main text is divided into thirteen sections; general works and history; crime and delinquency; economic conditions, employmentaspects, status and women’s role in development; education; feminism and women’s rights; health and welfare; legal status, women and family law; literary aspects, women in literature, mass media and the arts; marriage and divorce, fertility and demography; muslim women and Islam; political activities and public life; socio-cultural conditions, status in society, sociological and anthropological studies; and technology and science. The publications listed under the thirteen sections indicate heavier activities in economic studies, social cultural studies, women’s health and welfare and women in literature. The main types of publication produced are research reports in the form of final year academic reports, master dissertations and doctoral theses. Conference presentations and journal articles are equally popular. Most author in this field are one time contributors and about eighteen authors produced ten or more publications. The majority of authors work alone and very few works are co-authored indicating low collaboration rate. An author and subject index is included.

ZAINAB AWANG NGAH, Ph. D., teaches in the Master of Library and Information Science programme at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya since 1994. She receives her BA and MA (Education) from the University of Wales, Cardiff. She also obtained an additional MSc in Information Studies (with excellence) and Ph. D. degree in Information Science from Loughborough University. She was awarded the J. D. White Memorial Prize for her dissertation from Loughborough University in 1991. Her areas of research interests includes digital libraries, computer aided instruction in the field of library and information science, especially cataloguing, collection development, user information needs, information seeking behaviour, assessing the predictors of research productivity, scholarly communications, and information dissemination behaviour of scholars. She has published numerous articles in local and international refereed journals and has compiled as well as edited a number of bibliographies. She is also the editor in chief of the print and e-journal, Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science.

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