Shoma Munshi

Images of the Modern Woman in Asia

Global Media, Local Meanings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In examining the links between gender and the media, this volume asks questions involving the relationship between global media flows, gender and modernity in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780700713530
• ISBN-10: 0700713530
• Artikelnr.: 21818663

Autorenporträt

SHOMA MUNSHI is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam and an affiliated Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. She has published papers on consumption, gender and the media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 2 Changing Spaces of Global Media 3 Women and Pornography in
Kathmandu: Negotiating the 'Modem Woman' in a New Consumer Society 4
Interiority and the 'Modem Woman' in Japan 5 Marvellous Me: The Beauty
Industry and the Construction of the 'Modem' Indian Woman 6 Selling the
'Modem Woman': Consumer Culture and Chinese Gender Politics 7 Mulan
Illustration? Ambiguous Women in Contemporary Chinese Cinema 8
Prostitution, Politics and Power: Issues of the 'Foreign' in Western
Television Documentaries of Female Sex Workers in Thailand 9 A Suitable
Romance? Trajectories of Courtship in Indian Popular Fiction 10 Comparative
Modernities: Ottoman Women Writers and Western Feminism