Women and the media in Asia: The precarious self

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations and Table......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia......Page 16
Part I: Individualization in Transnational Flows......Page 44
1 Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women......Page 46
2 Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan TV......Page 68
3 Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia......Page 92
4 ‘Just a Slogan’: Individualism, Post-Feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China......Page 111
Part II: Competing Regime of Signifiers:Representation and Production......Page 128
5 Women and Sexual Desire in the Japanese Popular Media......Page 130
6 Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility in Taiwanese TV Advertising......Page 145
7 Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labour Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media......Page 158
8 Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008)......Page 174
Part III: New Consumption Practices of Female Individualization......Page 192
9 Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians......Page 194
10 ‘To Do Whatever She Wants’: Miss India, Bollywood and the Gendered Self......Page 219
11 Post-Socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows......Page 235
12 Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore......Page 252
Index......Page 270