Sunday Cinderellas: Dress and the Self-Transformation of Filipina Domestic Workers in Singapore, 1990s–2017

Singaporean female employers subject their Filipina domestic workers to strict rules governing their dress and behaviour, in the name of de-sexualising them and maintaining their status as invisible servants at the employers’ beck and call. This paper suggests that the fashionable attire that Filip...

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Main Author: Mina Roces
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute 2022-05-01
Series:International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/18828

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