Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (Critical Cultural Communication Book 20)

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.-- Publisher Description. 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. Edited By Radha Sarma Hegde. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Covering the internet, television, books, telecommunications, newspapers, and activist media work, the authors explore ways in which gender and sexuality issues are constructed and mobilized across the globe. Table of contents: http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/hedge_toc.pdf