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Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of Gender and Nation in Singapore

by Chris Hudson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788776941253
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
  • Publisher Imprint: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: USD 29.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite, and servile "Oriental" woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world's longest running and most successful advertising campaigns. But this image does not simply advertise a service; it is part of a global and national regime of symbolic constructions of gender that today is seen as outdated and sexist, and bearing little relation to modern Singapore where women have good access to education and increased life choices resulting from engagement in the wage economy.

The failure of these campaigns and rethinking of the Singapore Girl highlight a key premise of this book: there are limits to the power of discursive constructions of gender in the national interest.

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