✦ LIBER ✦
Interweaving the public and the private: women's responses to population policy shifts in Singapore
✍ Scribed by Teo, Peggy ;Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-3495
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✦ Synopsis
The private and the public are often deemed as a `natural' and universal division which models social life into a domestic sphere for women and a public/work sphere for men. The shift in Singapore's population policy from anti-to pro-natalism is used to explore gendered responses with the aim of deconstructing this dichotomy. The paper provides support for the interpenetration rather than division of spheres, and shows that macro-socioeconomic contexts are critical to rede®ning social values which may ultimately affect the coalescence of public ideology and private freedoms.