Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women....Pages 31-52
Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan TV....Pages 53-76
Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia....Pages 77-95
‘Just a Slogan’: Individualism, Post-Feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China....Pages 96-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Women and Sexual Desire in the Japanese Popular Media....Pages 115-129
Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility in Taiwanese TV Advertising....Pages 130-142
Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labour Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media....Pages 143-158
Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008)....Pages 159-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians....Pages 179-203
‘To Do Whatever She Wants’: Miss India, Bollywood and the Gendered Self....Pages 204-219
Post-Socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows....Pages 220-236
Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore....Pages 237-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-258