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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernice LohPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Volume: 13 Weight: 0.285kg ISBN: 9789811695131ISBN 10: 981169513 Pages: 146 Publication Date: 21 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Girls’ dressing Conceptual framework Terminology Research methodology The minority group perspective A girl-centred approach Focus groups Table 1 (Research Sample) Research position Chapter outline 1 Understanding girls’ dressing Introduction The discourse of sexualisation Western popular culture ‘Traditional’ popular media The raunchy celebrity culture Tween consumer culture The commodification of the tween girl The ‘unknowing’ tween A discourse of protection Critiques of the sexualisation-of-girls discourse The definition of sexualisation Sexualisation as a linear concept Problems of a discourse of protection Class and the discourse of sexualisation Postfeminism and girls’ dressing Conclusion 2 Girlhood in Singapore Introduction Western dominant accounts of childhood Childhood in Singapore Population policies and childhood in Singapore Education policies and childhood in Singapore Consumption and adult-like clothing for girls in Singapore Asian values and the culture of consumption in Singapore Consumption and social class in Singapore Femininity in Singapore Contesting femininities Conclusion 3 YouTube and girls’ dressing Introduction Girls’ popular culture consumption in Singapore: a pastiche of East and West Conceptualising girls’ popular culture consumption in Singapore The changing mediascapes in tween girls’ lives YouTube as an emergent popular media source Tween girls’ spectatorship “I just look at the YouTubers”: Popular YouTubers/YouTube channels Local Singaporean YouTubers Popular Western YouTubers Rethinking YouTube and tween girls’ dressing The DIY ethos Conclusion 4 A cultural perspective of tween girls’ dress Introduction Aspirations of style Girls’ definition of style Style as necessity Style through boundary-making Style as a youthful practice Allowances Girls and brands Purchasing new clothing Girls as reflexive and ‘sensible’ consumers Affiliation Class, social mobility and adult-like clothing Conclusion 5 Girls’ interpretive repertoires Introduction A confidence narrative Effort in the production of self Confidence and not contentment Accoutrement Girls and nail polish Hair and Heels – Diversity, complexity and contradiction Makeup as accoutrement: “No, no. Just don’t wear makeup” Adultification as something extrinsic “They dress too old.” Critical readings of celebrities’ dressing Critical readings of other girls’ dressing Reframing adult-like dressing Conclusion 6 Conclusion ‘Slowing down’ Existing inbetween Asia as method Girls’ feminism and postfeminism in Singapore ReferencesReviewsAuthor InformationBernice 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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