Bernice is Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, Centre for Family and Population Research. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, in 2017. She has research experience in youth identities, girlhood and young femininities. Born and raised in Singapore, Bernice’s work focuses specifically on tween-aged girls in Singapore and their cultural and fashioned identities. Her work speaks to the disciplines of the sociology and anthropology of children and youth, and gender and digital cultures. Bernice’s other work on girls’ young femininities in Singapore can be found on Girlhood Studies, Young and The Conversation (AU). She was also Recipient of the Postgraduate Publication Award from Monash University in 2017 and the Early Career Researcher Conference Funding from The Sociological Review (UK) in 2018. In her current position, Bernice works on a funded project that examines cross-national families and the children growing up in these homes.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Understanding girls’ dressing.- Chapter 2: Girlhood in Singapore.- Chapter 3: YouTube and girls’ dressing.- Chapter 4: A cultural perspective of tween girls’ dress.- Chapter 5: Girls’ interpretive repertoires.- Conclusion.

Bernice is Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, Centre for Family and Population Research. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, in 2017. She has research experience in youth identities, girlhood and young femininities. Born and raised in Singapore, Bernice’s work focuses specifically on tween-aged girls in Singapore and their cultural and fashioned identities. Her work speaks to the disciplines of the sociology and anthropology of children and youth, and gender and digital cultures. Bernice’s other work on girls’ young femininities in Singapore can be found on Girlhood Studies, Young and The Conversation (AU). She was also Recipient of the Postgraduate Publication Award from Monash University in 2017 and the Early Career Researcher Conference Funding from The Sociological Review (UK) in 2018. In her current position, Bernice works on a funded project that examines cross-national families and the children growing up in these homes.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Understanding girls’ dressing.- Chapter 2: Girlhood in Singapore.- Chapter 3: YouTube and girls’ dressing.- Chapter 4: A cultural perspective of tween girls’ dress.- Chapter 5: Girls’ interpretive repertoires.- Conclusion.