Images of the Modern Woman in Asia

Global Media, Local Meanings

AvShoma Munshi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-04-19
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780700713431

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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