The Singapore Woman's Charter Steve Oakes This is a poet who

This is a poet who knows history and art and feels intensely  both youth’s freshness and the nostalgias of age lamenting lost parents and lovers

Waterton Lake

describing an exciting race with such enthusiasm readers will feel they are in the stands themselves

Arriving at Quebec before dawn

Parents-like most Americans-equate teen sexuality with heartache

The Singapore Woman's Charter Steve Oakes This is a poet whoProf Leong Wai Kum not only demystifies the provisions of the Women's Charter, she also situates the Charter in Singapore's political context at the time. The author gives a balanced view of the Charter by highlighting the progressive provisions as well as its shortcomings. Outstanding is her personal view that the Charter provides a moral view of marriage as being "an equal cooperative partnership of different efforts". She also holds the view that