Underarm femininity : orientalizing the chinese national.
“I won’t say that underarm hair brings people in, but I guess its marks people out.” The presence of the underarm hair provides significant information in the “shared vocabularies of body idiom” (Goffman 1963) that has allowed Singaporeans to identify and label a woman with underarm hair as a “Ch...
Main Author: | Lee, Xin Fei. |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48257 |
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