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Believing In Equality: The Meanings Attached To ‘Feminism’ In Singapore, Lenore T. Lyons
Believing In Equality: The Meanings Attached To ‘Feminism’ In Singapore, Lenore T. Lyons
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
There have been a number of attempts in recent years to define the nature and character of ‘Asian feminism’. This article examines the way that Singaporean women who belong to the women’s organisation AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) understand the label ‘feminist’, both as a descriptor of their own political practice as well as that of the association. This study shows that for these women, claiming a feminist identity is fraught. Women in AWARE are caught between a public perception of feminism based on a western model, as well as the Singapore state’s own political usage of …
Beyond Technicalities: Expanding Engineering Thinking, Sharon Beder
Beyond Technicalities: Expanding Engineering Thinking, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that provides employers and clients with competent technical advice to a profession that serves the community in a socially responsible manner. Traditional engineering education caters to the former ideal, whereas increasingly both engineers themselves and their professional societies aspire to the latter. Employers are also requiring more from their engineering employees than technical proficiency. A new educational approach is needed to meet these changing requirements. It is no longer sufficient, nor even practical, to attempt to cram students full of technical knowledge in the hope that …