Women's Agency and the State in Contemporary Brunei

Norainie Ahmad is an appointed National Consultant and Senior Gender Expert on Women and Political Participation in Brunei, a project funded under the EU-ASEAN (EREADI) consortium. Her research interests intersect Social Demography, Women and Gender Studies, and Public Policy.Ooi Keat Gin is a professor of the modern history of Brunei/Borneo at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, and a visiting professor at the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea.

• 1. Situating Agency: A Framework for Analyzing Women’s Empowerment 2. Female Education in Brunei Darussalam 3. Writing the History of Brunei Women: Recent Developments and Challenges 4. A Gender Perspective on the Socio-Demographic Landscape of Brunei in the 21st century 5. Stand up and be counted! Gender stereotyping and women entrepreneurs in Brunei 6. The leadership learning journeys of Bruneian women in higher education 7. Women’s Reproductive Health and Rights in Brunei 8. Tweeting #MeToo: Wokeness, Digital Activism and Youth Advocacy in Brunei 9. Digital Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs Amid 4.0 IR: Case of Kunyit 7 Lodge in Kampong Ayer 10. Women’s Writing in Brunei Darussalam 11. Healing Homes: Female Agency in Chinese Anglophone Literature in Brunei Darussalam 12. The Role of Women in Islamic DevelopmentConcluding remarks: Weaving the Narratives of Womanhood Quo Vadis, Ladies?