1. SC2220: Gender StudiesLecture 11: Gender Issues in Singapore
Eric C. Thompson
Semester 2, 2010/2011

2. Where We Have Been
History of Gender Studies
Sex/Gender Distinction
Becoming Male or Female
Gender socialization; paths to learning gender.
Gender Systems
Masculinity/Femininity
Gender as systems of beliefs and behaviors
3. Where We Are Going
Gender in Popular Culture
Gender in Advertising
Popular Culture
Gender in Social Relations
Gender and Power
Gender and Work
Gender, Here and Now
Gender in Singapore
YOU ARE
HERE
4. Gendered Issues in Singapore
Is Singapore a Patriarchal Society?
National Service: What is at stake?
The Flight from Marriage
Importing Female Labor
Emergence of Transnational Patriarchy
5. Singapore: Patriarchal Society?

When people (& government) say that Singapore is a patriarchal society, what do they mean?

6. Asian and Confucian Values 7. Patrilocal Residence & Patrilineal Inheritance 8. Men: Fathers and Husbands as head-of-household and primary provider; Eldest son as lineage head. 9. Women: Wives, Mothers and Obedient Daughters-in-Law; focused on domestic work. 10. Do Singaporeans in fact follow these patterns?