This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on under-the-radar 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.
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 womens use of smartphones and mobile technologies
Chapter 5. Mobile telephony and identity expression of the Senufo women farmers in C?te d'Ivoire: A socio-anthropological reflection on the production and marketing chain of n?r??
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