Images of the Modern Woman in Asia

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.

• 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