Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.
Contains illustrations
ISBN 9780230292727 (hbk)
"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." (Publisher description)
Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia / Youna Kim, 1
I. INDIVIUDALIZATION IN TRANSITIONAL FLOWS
1 Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women / Youna Kim, 31
2 Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan Television / Fran Martin and Tania Lewis, 53
3 Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia / Pam Nilan, 77
4 'Just a Slogan': Individualism, Post-feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China / Sue Thornham and Feng Pengpeng, 96
II. COMPETING REGIME OF SIGNIFIERS - REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTION
5 Women and Sexual Desire on the Japanese Popular Media / Alexandra Hambleton, 115
6 Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility on Taiwanese TV Advertising / Ping Shaw and Chin-yi Lin, 130
7 Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labor Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media / Radikha Gajjala, 143
8 Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008) / Fatimah Tobing Rony, 159
III. NEW CONSUMPTION PRACTICES OF FEMALE INDIVIDUALIZATION
9 Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians / Bliss Cua Lim, 179
10 'To Do Whatever She Wants': Practicing the Miss India Pageant and Bollywood / Susan Dewey, 204
11 Post-socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows / Jing Wu, 220
12 Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore / AudreyYue, 237
I. INDIVIUDALIZATION IN TRANSITIONAL FLOWS
1 Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women / Youna Kim, 31
2 Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan Television / Fran Martin and Tania Lewis, 53
3 Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia / Pam Nilan, 77
4 'Just a Slogan': Individualism, Post-feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China / Sue Thornham and Feng Pengpeng, 96
II. COMPETING REGIME OF SIGNIFIERS - REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTION
5 Women and Sexual Desire on the Japanese Popular Media / Alexandra Hambleton, 115
6 Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility on Taiwanese TV Advertising / Ping Shaw and Chin-yi Lin, 130
7 Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labor Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media / Radikha Gajjala, 143
8 Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008) / Fatimah Tobing Rony, 159
III. NEW CONSUMPTION PRACTICES OF FEMALE INDIVIDUALIZATION
9 Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians / Bliss Cua Lim, 179
10 'To Do Whatever She Wants': Practicing the Miss India Pageant and Bollywood / Susan Dewey, 204
11 Post-socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows / Jing Wu, 220
12 Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore / AudreyYue, 237
