Women and the Media in Asia [electronic resource] : The Precarious Self /
Kim, Y.editor.
At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Table; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia; Part I: Individualization in Transnational Flows; 1 Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women; 2 Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan TV; 3 Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia; 4 'Just a Slogan': Individualism, Post-Feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China
Part II: Competing Regime of Signifiers:Representation and Production5 Women and Sexual Desire in the Japanese Popular Media; 6 Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility in Taiwanese TV Advertising; 7 Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labour Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media; 8 Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008); Part III: New Consumption Practices of Female Individualization; 9 Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians
10 'To Do Whatever She Wants': Miss India, Bollywood and the Gendered Self11 Post-Socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows; 12 Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Ethnology—Asia.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Anthropology.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Asian Culture.
Cultural Studies.
Media Research.
Anthropology.