Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia

Kim, Youna

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“…They would rather rely on the Chinese government to overcome the risks. Youna Kim (2012, p. 14) aptly states that “any possibility of creating a biography of one’s own is far from reflecting freedom of choice and individualization, but rather represents very limited possibilities and new forms of risk and injury embodied in the regulatory regime of the self. The notion of the self that is ‘free to choose’ is not simply a cultural fact but becomes an autonomous self when a woman is able to make a life for herself in her everyday existence, to make herself the center of her biography.…”

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Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

Tsang

2018

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Academic discussions of the sex industry need to consider sex worker’s experience within the conceptual framework of “edgework.” Edgework is voluntary risky activity that combines danger with excitement and emotional pleasure. This article argues female sex worker must weigh possible outcomes in terms of the resulting benefits or consequences. The notion of edgework articulated by Stephen Lyng proposed there is a fine line for risky behavior going from pleasurable and manageable to turning dangerous and chaotic. This description of edgework applies to female sex workers, and needs to be extended to individualization in the Chinese context. Research data collected from two distinct ethnographies in Dongguan (195 sex workers) and Hong Kong (39 sex workers). The research findings provide insights into the experiences and motivations of an underexamined niche segment of sex workers. A significant number of sex workers embody the perspective of edgework to maintain self-esteem in difficult circumstances. For example, edgework explains several aspects of sex work including notions of excitement and personal pleasure, developing skills within the craft, developing interpersonal networks with peers, and gaining personal happiness through fulfilling sexual desire.

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Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

Tsang

2018

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…As has been asserted, the relation between the self, the social and culture is also one of "consumer to the goods and services that saturate and materialise modern life" (Tanner et al, 2013: 3), a shift that is especially pertinent to the lives of young women whose discretionary income is increasingly targeted by an ever-growing range of multinational corporations. Young women's consumption practices have been enabled by a number of individualising mechanisms of late modernity, in particular gendered socio-economic transitions, such as higher levels of educational attainment, labour market participation, delayed marriage and nonmarriage, the feminisation of migration and declining rates of fertility (Kim, 2012). All of these conditions have allowed female youth to be positioned as the standard bearers of neoliberal "do-it-yourself" life projects, validating the individualisation of the life course as one of the central claims of contemporary social theory.…”

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Entrepreneurial Selves, Feminine Corporeality and Lifestyle Blogging in Singapore

Abidin

Gwynne

2017

Asian J Soc Sci

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The making of the entrepreneurial self is a dominant trope of contemporary media culture, and a multitude of media formats across divergent national contexts showcase the contemporary obsession with media visibility and the attainment of celebrity status as the most aspirational form of social mobility. In Singapore, commercial lifestyle blogs are prime examples of entrepreneurial identity-making as websites almost exclusively created by young women, showcasing user-generated content oriented around the pleasures of consumption as a means of empowerment, self-actualisation and individualisation. By analysing content on a selection of blogs, this article aims to answer the following questions: To what extent are Singaporean women’s identities contingent upon material consumption as a means of identity creation? How do blogs created by women demonstrate an entrepreneurial investment in their appearance and feminine corporeality as the means of perceived empowerment, even at the expense of more formal and structured forms of individualisation, such as education?

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Shifting the Privilege of Marriage: Empowering Voluntary Agency of the Individual’s Marriage Decision in Indonesia

Himawan

Surijah

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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Introduction: Female Individualization and Popular Media Culture in Asia

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

Entrepreneurial Selves, Feminine Corporeality and Lifestyle Blogging in Singapore

Shifting the Privilege of Marriage: Empowering Voluntary Agency of the Individual’s Marriage Decision in Indonesia

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