Tween Girls' Dressing and Young Femininity in Singapore

Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast?

Bernice Loh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-9510-0 (ISBN)

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This book provides an insight into girls’ cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls’ dressing in Singapore. The book adopts a girl-centred approach to shed light on the narratives and experiences of young Singaporean girls that have often been overlooked. It draws on the conversations with young Singaporean girls aged 8 to 12 to understand how they wanted to dress, from where they gained their inspiration, and what the social factors were that influenced their dressing. Through understanding how girls want to fashion themselves, the book shows that it is imprecise to discuss issues based on the assumption that there is one dominant, ‘correct’ way to grow up as a young person in Singapore. This book unpacks how young Singaporean girls negotiate their cultural identities through clothing that do not simply conform to or reflect their roles as students. It also shows how girlhood in Singapore is multi-faceted and the values and meanings that tween girls’ attach to their dressing intersect at the personal, social, and cultural level.

The book offers new ways of approaching and looking at girls’ adult-like dressing that move beyond the discourse of sexualisation. In establishing a space for young Singaporean girls’ voices in an area that has been dominated by studies from the West, this book also shows how the focus on tween girls in Asia can contribute to and advance the current state of girls’ studies.

Bernice is Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, Centre for Family and Population Research. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, in 2017. She has research experience in youth identities, girlhood and young femininities. Born and raised in Singapore, Bernice’s work focuses specifically on tween-aged girls in Singapore and their cultural and fashioned identities. Her work speaks to the disciplines of the sociology and anthropology of children and youth, and gender and digital cultures. Bernice’s other work on girls’ young femininities in Singapore can be found on Girlhood Studies, Young and The Conversation (AU). She was also Recipient of the Postgraduate Publication Award from Monash University in 2017 and the Early Career Researcher Conference Funding from The Sociological Review (UK) in 2018. In her current position, Bernice works on a funded project that examines cross-national families and the children growing up in these homes.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Understanding girls’ dressing.- Chapter 2: Girlhood in Singapore.- Chapter 3: YouTube and girls’ dressing.- Chapter 4: A cultural perspective of tween girls’ dress.- Chapter 5: Girls’ interpretive repertoires.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Children and Young People
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 146 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Childhood and social class • Childhood in Singapore • Girlhood studies in Singapore • Girls and YouTube • Girls' consumption in Singapore • Girls’ consumption in Singapore • Girls' cultural identities in Singapore • Girls’ cultural identities in Singapore • Girls' dressing in Asia • Girls’ dressing in Asia • Girls' dressing in Singapore • Girls’ dressing in Singapore • Girls' media practices in Asia • Girls’ media practices in Asia • Girls' popular culture in Asia • Girls’ popular culture in Asia • Postfeminism in Singapore • Social identities of girls in Singapore • Social media and girls • Tween girls' dressing • Tween girls’ dressing • Young femininities in Singapore • Youth identities in Singapore
ISBN-10	981-16-9510-5 / 9811695105
ISBN-13	978-981-16-9510-0 / 9789811695100
Zustand	Neuware