To what extent do women have control over their lives? How do the media intersect with imagining different lives for women? This book is concerned with thechanging lives of women; the troubling signs of female individualization as intersected with everyday media culture - a new arena of anxiety for women in contemporary Asia. The book explores everyday media culture and the issues of women as 'consumers', women as 'representations' and women as 'creators', to offer an understanding of changing lives and frustrated desires, contradictions and dispersed sites of female individualization that are refracted into various degrees and forms. At a time of significant changes in women's lives entering a much larger but 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, economicsand politics of everyday life. Drawing on perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book provides an insightful investigation into the evolving phenomena INDICE: Acknowledgements .Introduction.Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia; .Y.Kim.PART I: INDIVIDUALIZATION IN TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS.Female Individualization?: Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women; .Y.Kim.Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan Television; .F.Martin. & .T.Lewis.Young 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.Pengpeng.PART II: COMPETING REGIME OF SIGNIFIERS - REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTION.Women and Sexual Desire on the Japanese Popular Media; .A.Hambleton.Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility on Taiwanese TV Advertising; .P.Shaw. & .C.Lin.Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labor Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media; .R.Gajjala.Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008); .F.Tobing Rony.PART III: NEW CONSUMPTION PRACTICES OF FEMALE INDIVIDUALIZATION .Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians; .B.Cua Lim.'ToDo Whatever She Wants': Practicing the Miss India Pageant and Bollywood; .S.Dewey.Post-socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows;. J.Wu.Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore; .A.Yue.Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29272-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido