Underarm femininity : orientalizing the chinese national.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lee, Xin Fei.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48257
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

“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...