"You're too tall!" constructing the tall girl.

• Main Author: Leo, Sin Hwee.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social institutions
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51657
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study explores the topic on body stature that has been largely ignored in earlier sociological debates on the body. Primarily, it examines how height is not a mere biological attribute, rather a social construct. Further, the ways certain categories of height and gender are articulated and cons...