Women and the Media in Asia

The Precarious Self
Herausgeber: Kim, Y.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781349332458
• ISBN-10: 1349332453
• Artikelnr.: 45756325

Autorenporträt

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (2005, Routledge); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2008, Routledge); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (2011, Routledge); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012, Palgrave Macmillan); The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013, Routledge); Global Nannies: Minorities and the Digital Media (in preparation).

Inhaltsangabe

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 'To Do
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