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Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia
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Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries.

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia:Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. 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.

Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Womens Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

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Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the ongoing struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries.

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. 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.

Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, including film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Womens Studies and Asian Studies, as well as for courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

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.

Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

1. Women, Identity and Indias Call Centre Industry

JK Tina Basi

2. Feminist Research Methodology

Making meanings of meaning-making

Maithree Wickramasinghe

3. Sex Trafficking in South Asia

Telling Mayas story

Mary Crawford

4. Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia

Disputing the Muslim body

Sonja van Wichelen

5. Gender and Family in East Asia

Edited by Siumi Maria Tam, Wai-ching Angela Wong and Danning Wang

6. Dalit Womens Education in Modern India

Double discrimination

Shailaja Paik

7. New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics

Ya-chen Chen

8. Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia

Edited by Adeline Koh and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia

Edited by
Adeline Koh and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

First published 2015
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2015 Adeline Koh and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Women and the politics of representation in Southeast Asia : engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia / edited by Adeline Koh and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow.

pages cm. -- (Routledge research on gender in Asia series ; 8)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Women--Singapore--Social conditions. 2. Women--Malaysia--Social conditions. 3. Sex role--Singapore. 4. Sex role--Malaysia. I. Koh, Adeline, editor of compilation. II. Balasingamchow, Yu-Mei, editor of compilation. III. Hudson, Chris, 1950- Dangerous sexuality in Singapore.

Contains (work):

HQ1750.67.W67 2014
305.4095957--dc23

2014001967

ISBN: 978-1-138-78647-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-76726-0 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Taylor and Francis Books

Contents

ADELINE KOH AND YU-MEI BALASINGAMCHOW

CHRIS HUDSON

SIMON OBENDORF

TERENCE HENG

HANITA MOHD MOKHTAR-RITCHIE

CATHERINE GOMES

MICHELLE M. LAZAR

SYLVA FRISK

SUSAN PHILIP

CHITRA SANKARAN AND CHNG HUANG HOON

This book could not have been completed without the generous support of our friends, families, colleagues and institutions. Much of the work for this volume was supported by the Richard Stockton College research and professional development fund, and we have presented on parts of the book at invited venues in Singapore, such as a symposium on gender held by Nanyang Technological University and AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research).

We would like to thank Maud Lavin, Lucy Davis, Liew Kai Khiun, Frieda Ekotto, Theresa Devasahayam, Shirlena Huang, Geraldine Heng, Philip Holden, Sophia Siddique Harvey, Brian Jara, Chua Ai Lin, Gerald Sim, Zaibun Siraj and Chie Ikeya for all their advice in guiding this volume to completion. At Richard Stockton College, Adeline is especially grateful for the support of the Literature Program and the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Grants Office, all of whom have been extremely supportive of this book. She would especially like to thank Kristin Jacobson, Deborah Gussman, Adalaine Holton, Ellen Mutari, Deb Figart, Beth Olsen and Jillian Cawley for all their help.

Thanks for research and editorial assistance must go to Richard Stockton alumnae Svetlana Fenichel and Stephanie Cawley, who worked tirelessly on the book, as well as Christina Castelli while she was at NUS, who helped extensively with the prospectus. We also extend our thanks to AWARE executive director Corinna Lim for putting out a call for interns for us. We are grateful for the interns who volunteered Leow Hui Min Annabeth, Lin Lee and Desiree Lim for all their assistance. Props also go to Lo Hwei Shan and Jolene Tan for their editorial help.

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