Gender Relations: A Wrestle or a Dance?
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
March 2021 EDITORIAL
SOCIOLOGY IS THE study of how a certain society functions, and central to that ambition is the study of how different genders relate to each other in that society.Getting to know the latter, however, requires socio-psychological insights into how the power relations between the genders evolved over the centuries, and how the dynamics of struggle continue to play out. To understand a culture, in other words, is more about understanding how the weaker party – in almost all cases, the...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
