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Beyond the Singapore Girl

Chris Hudson
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      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a service; it is part of a global and national regime of symbolic constructions of gender that today is seen as outdated and sexist, and bearing little relation to modern Singapore where women have good access to education and increased life choices resulting from engagement in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 nation's economic success has been a force for their liberation. One catastrophic consequence of women's changed lives has been the plunge in fertility rates. Singapore has one of the world's lowest despite energetic government campaigns encouraging women to have more babies - and men to be more 'masculine'. 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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Hudson EAN: 9788776941246 COUNTRY: Denmark PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 228 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: NIAS Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-08-30 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Singapore, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Chris Hudson is a research leader in the Globalization and Culture Program in the Global Cities Research Institute and Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
      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a service; it is part of a global and national regime of symbolic constructions of gender that today is seen as outdated and sexist, and bearing little relation to modern Singapore where women have good access to education and increased life choices resulting from engagement in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 nation's economic success has been a force for their liberation. One catastrophic consequence of women's changed lives has been the plunge in fertility rates. Singapore has one of the world's lowest despite energetic government campaigns encouraging women to have more babies - and men to be more 'masculine'. 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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Hudson EAN: 9788776941246 COUNTRY: Denmark PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 228 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: NIAS Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-08-30 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Singapore, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Chris Hudson is a research leader in the Globalization and Culture Program in the Global Cities Research Institute and Associate Professor of Asian Media and Culture at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

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