Adeline Koh, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of Singapore and Malaysia. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138786479
• ISBN-10: 1138786470
• Artikelnr.: 40578154

Autorenporträt

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is a writer and independent scholar in Singapore. She is the co-author of Singapore: A Biography, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010. Her research interests are in history and social memory, gender, urbanism and cultural politics. Adeline Koh is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and director of DH@Stockton, a digital humanities centre at Richard Stockton College, America. She works and publishes on the intersections of race, postcolonial studies, global feminisms and the digital humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Dangerous Sexuality in Singapore: The Sarong Party Girl
3. Consuls, Consorts or Courtesans? 'Singapore Girls' Between the Nation
and the World
4. Masculine-Feminine Tensions in Singaporean Chinese Wedding
Photography: An Auto/Biographical Narrative
5. The Trouble with Modernity: Melodrama and the Independent Heroine in
Selected Contemporary Malaysian-Malay Films
6. Memory and the State: Remembering the Cantonese Black and White Amah
7. 'What Will It Cost You Today?': The Gendered Discourse of Parenting
8. Gendered Dimensions of Islamization: the Case of IMAN
9. Confronting Issues of Belonging and Non-Belonging in the Works of
Four Female Malaysian Theatre Practitioners
10. Interrogating Gender in a Singapore Classroom