Description
This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on 窶忖nder-the-radar窶� use of mobile communication to display a nuanced understanding of social impacts that may affect the gender construction processes of women at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.
A global team of authors focus on the use of mobile communication by women in the lower rungs of their respective societies, as well as those who migrate with marginalized statuses within and across the national borders, to demonstrate how 窶忖nder-the-radar窶� use of mobile communication is deeply inscribed within diversified social, cultural, historical, and political milieus. Illuminating the social structural constraints faced by women under their dynamic negotiation of agentic mobile phone use for self-empowerment, the chapters cover women窶冱 economic activities, health care, well-being, migration, gendered identity, and the practices of different gender roles.
This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication, new and digital media, mobile communication, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Section 1 Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction
Section 2 Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux
Chapter 2. Chores, Mores, and Digital Doors; Computer and Mobile Pathways to Digital Skills
Chapter 3. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by women in a South African rural community
Chapter 4. The digital divides in Hong Kong: A small stories analysis of older women窶冱 use of smartphones and mobile technologies
Chapter 5. Mobile telephony and identity expression of the Senufo women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire: A socio-anthropological reflection on the production and marketing chain of néré
Section 3 Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication
Chapter 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: Digitization communication and financial independence in East Africa
Chapter 7. Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance
Chapter 8. Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile phones in Dar es Salaam
Section 4 Migration of women and mobile-mediated mobility
Chapter 9. Bonding, bridging, and belonging: Smartphone practices of migrant women from the Global South resettling in Rural-Norway
Chapter 10. Smartphones, shopping and the technomobility of migrant mothers
Chapter 11. Expectation Asymmetries in Mobile Communication of Chinese 窶牢tudy Mothers (Peidu Mama)窶�: Long-Distance Intimacy, Gender Positionality and Emotion Work
Chapter 12. At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic review of gender, migrants, and mobiles
Chapter 13. Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony in West Bengal, India
Section 5 (C)overt resistance and self-expression in negotiated mobile spaces
Chapter 14. 窶廬nvisible people have no politics窶�: Becoming middle-class working women with rural roots in a mobile assemblage
Chapter 15. Mobile Kasambahay: Digital inclusion and the transformation of everyday life of live-in domestic workers in the Philippines
Chapter 16. An Instagram of One窶冱 Own: Young Indian women窶冱 use of mobile technologies for skilling and work
Chapter 17. Lower-class women and their use of mobile communication in Italy
Chapter 18. Imagining and performing the agentic self: An ethnographic exploration of Muslim teenage girls窶� mobile youth culture in Flanders
Chapter 19. Feminist resistance on Chinese social media: Guerrilla warfare under the hashtag
