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Book SynopsisExplores globalized ideas of gendered constructions and contradictions though the transnational media
Trade ReviewAn extraordinary collection of original approaches to familiar and unfamiliar issues about gendering and globalization. Each chapter gives us an unusual empirical study, charged with a sense of discovery. And each chapter gives us a type of theorizing that makes visible what is otherwise hidden. -- Saskia Sassen,Columbia University
Hegde's ambitious and well-crafted introduction outlines the ways in which sexuality and gender are entangled in transnational configurations such as celebrity, immigration, activism, religion, fashion and war. -- Nitin Govil * International Journal of Communication *
This wide-ranging collection of essays should be of considerable interest to scholars of media, globalization and gender. It combines acute ethnographic reportage and a strong theoretical sense of the political economy of gendered images and in todays global media formations. -- Arjun Appadurai,New York University
It is a must-read for anyone interested in inter-sectional feminist analysis or globalization. * H-Net Reviews *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Radha S. HegdePart I: Configuring Visibilities 1 Seeing Princess Salma Susan Ossman 2 Constructing Transnational DivasZala Volcic and Karmen Erjavec 3 The Gendered Face of LatinidadAngharad N. Valdivia 4 E-Race-ing ColorRadhika ParameswaranPart II: Contesting Ideologies 5 Gendered BlueprintsNabil Echchaibi 6 Transnational Media Wars over Sex TraffickingFelicity Schaeffer-Grabiel 7 "Recycling" Heroines in FranceJulie Thomas 8 Celebrity TravelsSpring-Serenity DuvallPart III: Capital Trails 9 Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of ConsumptionMinoo Moallem 10 Spaces of ExceptionRadha S. Hegde 11 Maid as Metaphor: Dagongmei and a New Pathway to Chinese Transnational Capital Wanning Sun 12 Dial "C" for CultureJan Maghinay PadiosPart IV: Technologies of Control 13 Digital CosmopolitanismsSujata Moorti 14 Doing Cultural Citizenship in the Global Media HubAudrey Yue 15 Gendering CyberspaceSaskia Witteborn 16 Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and GirlsArab Emirates Noor Al-QasimiAbout the Contributors Index
