Women and the media in Asia
Subtitle: the precarious self
By: edited by Youna Kim
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230292727
Subjects: Mass media and women; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: " 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. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements IntroductionFemale Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia; Y.KimPART I: INDIVIDUALIZATION IN TRANSNATIONAL FLOWSFemale Individualization?: Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women; Y.KimLifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan Television; F.Martin & T.LewisYoung Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia; P.Nilan'Just a Slogan': Individualism, Post-feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China; S.Thornham & F.PengpengPART II: COMPETING REGIME OF SIGNIFIERS - REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTIONWomen and Sexual Desire on the Japanese Popular Media; A.HambletonMove Freely: Single Women and Mobility on Taiwanese TV Advertising; P.Shaw & C.LinProducing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labor Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media; R.GajjalaTransforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008); F.Tobing RonyPART III: NEW CONSUMPTION PRACTICES OF FEMALE INDIVIDUALIZATION Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians; B.Cua Lim'To Do Whatever She Wants': Practicing the Miss India Pageant and Bollywood; S.DeweyPost-socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows; J.WuFemale Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore; A.YueIndex.