Shifting representations of the Samsui women and the Amahs from the 1980s to 1990s : through the media

• Main Author: Lum, Xin Yi
• Other Authors: Jessica Bridgette Hinchy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Social aspects
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155985
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As characteristics of hard work and resilience dominated the popular discourse of the Samsui women and the Amahs, this effectively reduced them to labourers of the early development of Singapore. Hence, this paper seeks to expand on this discourse by shedding light on the shifting representations of...