Leaning on no man

By Yap Jo-Yee

September 2014 FEATURE
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Will it ever be possible for a woman to exist on her own terms, or will cultural reinforcement beat that notion down?What is a “woman”? Is there an adequate answer in the first place? There is a somewhat belittling definition: Tota mulier in utero – “a woman is a womb”. And French writer Simone de Beauvoir wrote a 700-page-long book on feminism which humorously notes that “in speaking of certain women, connoisseurs declare that they are not women, although they...

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Yap Jo-Yee

is a research analyst at Penang Institute whose interests range from development issues to behavioural economics. Her latest goal is to use ggplot2 without Google’s help.


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