It's all about balance: working women, fashion and hegemonic Singaporean femininity from 1965 - 1989

• Main Author: Hong, Jie Ying
• Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Social aspects; Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government; Humanities::General::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165370
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After independence, economic development was of critical urgency to Singapore. The state’s conflicting discourse on womanhood resulted from the involvement of women in the industrial economy. Under “traditional” gender roles, women were primarily domestic. However, the new economy required women to...