"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" : a comparative study of Chinese & Indian Singaporean women's ideals of beauty.
Beauty has such great significance in our society today, especially for women and that has spurred people to go to great lengths to achieve perfection that has often been representative of the White ideal beauty. I focus on the cultural aspects of beauty, by speaking to Chinese and Indian women i...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/25675 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Beauty has such great significance in our society today, especially for women and that has
spurred people to go to great lengths to achieve perfection that has often been representative of
the White ideal beauty. I focus on the cultural aspects of beauty, by speaking to Chinese and
Indian women in Singapore, in order to find out how they define beauty and how their influences
affect them in defining beauty. By conducting in-depth interviews with these women, I found that
beauty is an agency for these women who use beauty to assimilate into or differentiate themselves
from society. In analyzing how women deal with hair, skin, body size and dressing, I show how
Singaporean women have found the multicultural environment of Singapore useful in defining
their own beauty standards. I also show how we are moving forward from one particular ideal of
beauty and toward a more accepting, diverse ideal of beauty. |
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