Wazir Jahan engages the reader in absorbing stories from her childhood to retirement against a backdrop of events in Malaysia — cultural, academic and political — which elucidates the complexities of being a Muslim feminist, in a divisive Asian society. Her narrative demonstrates that each woman can successfully negotiate the boundaries between patriarchy, family and modernity if they believe that being a woman is synonymous with being a feminist - that institutions which obstruct women's path to freedom can be challenged through recognising the power of individualism. Jahan believes that...