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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Configuring Visibilities

1 Seeing Princess Salma: Transparency and Transnational Intimacies

2 Constructing Transnational Divas: Gendered Productions of Balkan Turbo-folk Music

3 The Gendered Face of Latinidad: Global Circulation of Hybridity

4 E-Race-ing Color: Gender and Transnational Visual Economies of Beauty in India

PART II: Contesting Ideologies

5 Gendered Blueprints: Transnational Masculinities in Muslim Televangelist Cultures

6 Transnational Media Wars over Sex Trafficking: Abolishing the “New Slave Trade” or the New Nativism?

7 “Recycling” Heroines in France: Coutured Identities and Invisible Transitions

8 Celebrity Travels: Media Spectacles and the Construction of a Transnational Politics of Care

PART III: Capital Trails

9 Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of Consumption: Persian Carpets and the Gendered Politics of Transnational Knowledge

10 Spaces of Exception: Violence, Technology, and the Transgressive Gendered Body in India’s Global Call Centers

11 Maid as Metaphor: Dagongmei and a New Pathway to Chinese Transnational Capital

12 Dial “C” for Culture: Telecommunications, Gender, and the Filipino Transnational Migrant Market

PART IV: Technologies of Control

13 Digital Cosmopolitanisms: The Gendered Visual Culture of Human Rights Activism

14 Doing Cultural Citizenship in the Global Media Hub: Illiberal Pragmatics and Lesbian Consumption Practices in Singapore

15 Gendering Cyberspace: Transnational Mappings and Uyghur Diasporic Politics

16 Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and Girls: Uploading Transnational Queer Subjectivities in the United Arab Emirates

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