Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore.
The wearing of make-up as a beauty practice is not new, and is deemed essential to some women since early ages. This tradition of primping up has fed in their desires to look beautiful and to conceal imperfections when meeting people. This paper seeks to explore how women in Singapore are being subj...
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| author | Gho, Valerie Yong Ting. |
| author2 | Tan Joo Ean |
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| description | The wearing of make-up as a beauty practice is not new, and is deemed essential to some women since early ages. This tradition of primping up has fed in their desires to look beautiful and to conceal imperfections when meeting people. This paper seeks to explore how women in Singapore are being subjugated in a muted form, disguised by a façade of high gender equality in a developed country. In-depth interviews with fourteen women who wear and do not wear make-up were conducted to investigate this underlying implication and to delve into how this false consciousness is being internalised and perpetuated. I organise this discussion using various themes such as inequality and power, the presentation of self, consumption and media to address repercussions from the use of make-up. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/516562019-12-10T11:14:23Z Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. Gho, Valerie Yong Ting. Tan Joo Ean School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology The wearing of make-up as a beauty practice is not new, and is deemed essential to some women since early ages. This tradition of primping up has fed in their desires to look beautiful and to conceal imperfections when meeting people. This paper seeks to explore how women in Singapore are being subjugated in a muted form, disguised by a façade of high gender equality in a developed country. In-depth interviews with fourteen women who wear and do not wear make-up were conducted to investigate this underlying implication and to delve into how this false consciousness is being internalised and perpetuated. I organise this discussion using various themes such as inequality and power, the presentation of self, consumption and media to address repercussions from the use of make-up. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-08T03:28:35Z 2013-04-08T03:28:35Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51656 en Nanyang Technological University 36 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology Gho, Valerie Yong Ting. Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title | Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title_full | Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title_fullStr | Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title_short | Behind a pretty face : a study of make-up and subjugation of women in Singapore. |
| title_sort | behind a pretty face a study of make up and subjugation of women in singapore |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology |
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