Circuits of visibility : gender and transnational media cultures / edited by Radha Sarma Hegde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hegde, Radha Sarma, 1953-

Series:

Critical cultural communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in mass media.

Sex role and globalization.

Women in mass media.

Feminism and mass media.

Mass media and globalization.

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Circuits of Visibility" explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in transnationally networked, media saturated environments, "Circuits of Visibility" presents sixteen essays that collectively advance a discussion about sexual politics, media, technology, and globalization. Covering the internet, television, books, telecommunications, newspapers, and activist media work, the volume directs focused attention to the ways in which gender and sexuality issues are constructed and mobilized across the globe. Contributors' essays span diverse global sites from Myanmar and Morocco to the Balkans, France, U.S., and China, and cover an extensive terrain from consumption, aesthetics and whiteness to masculinity, transnational labor, and cultural citizenship. "Circuits of Visibility" initiates a necessary conversation and political critique about the mediated global terrain on which sexuality is defined, performed, regulated, made visible, and experienced.

Contents:

Seeing Princess Salma: transparency and transnational intimacies / Susan Ossman

Constructing transnational divas: gendered productions of Balkan turbo-folk music / Zala Volčič and Karmen Erjavec

The gendered face of Latinidad: global circulation of hybridity / Angharad N. Valdivia

E-race-ing color: gender and transnational visual economies of beauty in India / Radhika Parameswaran

Gendered blueprints: transnational masculinities in Muslim televangelist cultures / Nabil Echchaibi

Transnational media wars over sex trafficking: abolishing the "New slave trade" or the new nativism? / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel

"Recycling" heroines in France: coutured identities and invisible transitions / Julie Thomas

Celebrity travels: media spectacles and the construction of a transnational politics of care / Spring-Serenity Duvall

Objects of knowledge, subjects of consumption: Persian carpets and the gendered politics of transnational knowledge / Minoo Moallem

Spaces of exception: violence, technology, and the transpressive gendered body in India's global call centers / Radha S. Hegde

Maid as metaphor: Dagongmei and a new pathway to Chinese transnational capital / Wanning Sun

Dial "C" for culture: telecommunications, gender, and the Filipino transnational migrant market / Jan Maghinay Padios

Digital cosmopolitanisms: the gendered visual culture of human rights activism / Sujata Moorti

Doing cultural citizenship in the global media hub: illiberal pragmatics and lesbian consumption practices in Singapore / Audrey Yue

Gendering cyberspace: transnational mappings and Uyghur diasporic politics / Saskia Witteborn

Ladies and gentlemen, Boyahs and girls: uploading transnational queer subjectivities in the United Arab emirates / Noor Al-Qasimi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814737309

0814737307

9780814737316

0814737315

9780814790601

0814790607

OCLC:

692291872