Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption
This study seeks to understand the relationship between women’s beauty consumption and their identity construction by uncovering the meanings behind their beauty practices and the role that beauty practices play in their presentations of selves. Through snowball sampling, 11 in-depth interviews were...
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| author | Soh, Saphira Amir |
| author2 | Dina Delias |
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| description | This study seeks to understand the relationship between women’s beauty consumption and their identity construction by uncovering the meanings behind their beauty practices and the role that beauty practices play in their presentations of selves. Through snowball sampling, 11 in-depth interviews were conducted with Singaporean women of different races, aged 21-25 years old. The study revealed that women’s beauty practices are regarded as creative experiences, an avenue for self-expression and have a positive effect on women’s self-confidence and self- image. In analyzing their experiences, the author illuminates how women actively negotiate their appearances to achieve impression goals, and how race and cultural beauty ideals intersect, forming a dissonance between their racial and Asian identities; where race is conflated with ethnicity in the context of Singapore. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/700052019-12-10T13:47:17Z Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption Soh, Saphira Amir Dina Delias School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This study seeks to understand the relationship between women’s beauty consumption and their identity construction by uncovering the meanings behind their beauty practices and the role that beauty practices play in their presentations of selves. Through snowball sampling, 11 in-depth interviews were conducted with Singaporean women of different races, aged 21-25 years old. The study revealed that women’s beauty practices are regarded as creative experiences, an avenue for self-expression and have a positive effect on women’s self-confidence and self- image. In analyzing their experiences, the author illuminates how women actively negotiate their appearances to achieve impression goals, and how race and cultural beauty ideals intersect, forming a dissonance between their racial and Asian identities; where race is conflated with ethnicity in the context of Singapore. Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-07T03:17:17Z 2017-04-07T03:17:17Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70005 en Nanyang Technological University 34 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Soh, Saphira Amir Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title | Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title_full | Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title_fullStr | Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title_short | Beauty consumerism and identity: unveiling the meanings behind young adult Singaporean women’s beauty consumption |
| title_sort | beauty consumerism and identity unveiling the meanings behind young adult singaporean women s beauty consumption |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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