FASS Staff Profile

DR ADELYN LIM
SENIOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Appointment:
SENIOR LECTURER
Office:
AS1-04-26
Email:
adelynlim@nus.edu.sg
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Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/socall/
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Brief Introduction

I am an anthropologist and ethnographer of gender and sexuality, with a focus on cultures of fatherhood, reproductive health, as well as intersectional and transnational feminisms. I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a Research Associate in the Centre for Family and Population Research. I am also an Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 


Teaching Areas

  • Singapore Society 
  • Sociology of Family
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality in Comparative Perspective 
  • Social Movements and Collective Action 

Current Research

  • Feminist Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy 
  • Transgender Sex Work in Singapore

Research Interests

  • Gender
  • Sexuality 
  • Reproductive Health
  • Social movements 
  • Intersectional and transnational feminism 

Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • 2015, Transnational Feminism and Women’s Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond the State, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • 2010, "The Hong Kong Women's Movement: Towards a Politics of Difference and Diversity" in Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism, Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, eds. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 144-65.  

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • Forthcoming. “Asian Values in Confucian Masculinity: A Discourse Analysis of Parenting Advice to Fathers.” In Women's Studies International Forum.  

    2023, "Sexism without Sexists: Gender-Blind Frames in Police Work.” Co-authored with Jenia Lo in Gender, Work & Organization, 30 (6): 1885-1902. 

    2021, "Confucian Masculinity: State Advocacy of Active Fatherhood in Singapore" in Men and Masculinities, 24 (1): 46-63. 

    2016, “Transnational Organizing and Feminist Politics of Difference and Solidarity: The Mobilization of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong” in Asian Studies Review, 40 (1): 70-88.

    2008, "Transnational Feminist Practices in Hong Kong: Mobilization and Collective Action for Sex Workers' Rights"  in The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 9 (4): 319-331.

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