Women and the Media in Asia

1. Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia
Youna Kim

Part I. Individualization in Transnational Flows

2. Female Individualization? Transnational Mobility and Media Consumption of Asian Women
Youna Kim

3. Lifestyling Women: Emergent Femininities on Singapore and Taiwan TV
Fran Martin Tania Lewis

4. Young Women and Everyday Media Engagement in Muslim Southeast Asia
Pam Nilan

5. ‘Just a Slogan’: Individualism, Post-Feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China
Sue Thornham Feng Pengpeng

Part II. Competing Regime of Signifiers

6. Women and Sexual Desire in the Japanese Popular Media
Alexandra Hambleton

7. Move Freely: Single Women and Mobility in Taiwanese TV Advertising
Ping Shaw Chin-yi Lin

8. Producing Individualized Voicings for a Global Labour Force: Digitizing Agency through Social Media
Radhika Gajjala

9. Transforming Documentary: Indonesian Women and Sexuality in the Film Pertaruhan [At Stake] (2008)
Fatimah Tobing Rony

Part III. New Consumption Practices of Female Individualization

10. Fandom, Consumption and Collectivity in the Philippine New Cinema: Nora and the Noranians
Bliss Cua Lim

11. ‘To Do Whatever She Wants’: Miss India, Bollywood and the Gendered Self
Susan Dewey

12. Post-Socialist Articulation of Gender Positions: Contested Public Sphere of Reality Dating Shows
Jing Wu

13. Female Individualization and Illiberal Pragmatism: Blogging and New Life Politics in Singapore
Audrey Yue

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Asian Culture, Cultural Studies, Media Research, Anthropology