One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Conundrums of the Rape Legal Reform Campaign in MalaysiaFootnote^*

* This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the meeting ‘Gender, Sexuality and Law Reform in the Middle East and North Africa and South East Asia,’ organized by Women for Women’s Human Rights—New Ways, Istanbul, Turkey, 31 March-3 April 2005.

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