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This chapter focuses on an important women’s rights coalition, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG). This coalition, which has its roots in 1980s feminism and campaigns against violence against women (VAW) in Malaysia, is a successful and cohesive coalition of twelve women’s rights organisations throughout Malaysia. It is a key actor in the history of women’s rights in Malaysia as well as contemporary women’s rights activism. Lee develops an innovative approach to the presentation of the voices of women involved in this coalition . Although the chapter begins with an introduction to the background of the coalition, this chapter is mostly composed of the direct voices of women from JAG. These women, who are key persons in JAG’s constituent NGOs, were interviewed individually, but in this chapter their voices are interleaved such that it is as if they were all in the room together narrating their coalition’s history and activities. To respect of the directness of these voices, this chapter does not attempt any abstraction or theorisation of the content, and seeks instead to honour the voices, ideas and analyses of the women themselves.
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Lee, J.C.H. (2018). Voices from the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality. In: Women’s Activism in Malaysia. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78969-9_4
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